Radiative Processes in High Energy Astrophysics

✍ Scribed by Gabriele Ghisellini (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 152
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 873
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book grew out of the author’s notes from his course on Radiative Processes in High Energy Astrophysics. The course provides fundamental definitions of radiative processes and serves as a brief introduction to Bremsstrahlung and black body emission, relativistic beaming, synchrotron emission and absorption, Compton scattering, synchrotron self-compton emission, pair creation and emission. The final chapter discusses the observed features of Active Galactic Nuclei and their interpretation based on the radiative processes presented in the book. Written in an informal style, this book will guide students through their first encounter with high-energy astrophysics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Some Fundamental Definitions....Pages 1-21
Bremsstrahlung and Black Body....Pages 23-29
Beaming....Pages 31-46
Synchrotron Emission and Absorption....Pages 47-64
Compton Scattering....Pages 65-88
Synchrotron Self-Compton....Pages 89-93
Pairs....Pages 95-109
Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 111-140
Back Matter....Pages 141-147

✦ Subjects

Astrophysics and Astroparticles;Plasma Physics;Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics;Optics and Electrodynamics