Astrophysics at Very High Energies

Saas-Fee Advanced Course 40. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
2013
ISBN: 978-3-642-36133-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 361 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 729 g

Reihe: Saas-Fee Advanced Course

With the success of Cherenkov Astronomy and more recently with the launch of NASA’s Fermi mission, very-high-energy astrophysics has undergone a revolution in the last years. This book provides three comprehensive and up-to-date reviews of the recent advances in gamma-ray astrophysics and of multi-messenger astronomy. Felix Aharonian and Charles Dermer address our current knowledge on the sources of GeV and TeV photons, gleaned from the precise measurements made by the new instrumentation. Lars Bergström presents the challenges and prospects of astro-particle physics with a particular emphasis on the detection of dark matter candidates. The topics covered by the 40th Saas-Fee Course present the capabilities of current instrumentation and the physics at play in sources of very-high-energy radiation to students and researchers alike. This book will encourage and prepare readers for using space and ground-based gamma-ray observatories, as well as neutrino and other multi-messenger detectors.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aharonian, Felix

Bergström, Lars

Dermer, Charles

Walter, Roland

Türler, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomische Beobachtung: Observatorien, Instrumente, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Gamma Rays at Very High Energies.- Multi-messenger Astronomy and Dark Matter.- Sources of GeV Photons and the Fermi Results.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Felix Aharonian is Professor of Astrophysics, Dublin Institute
for Advanced Studies, Dublin Ireland, and
Head of High Energy Astrophysics Theory Group,
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany.
He is Member of several high-energy astrophysics collaborations and working groups.

Lars Bergström is professor in theoretical physics in the  Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Sweden. Together with Ariel Goobar he is author of the successful book Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics.

Dr. Charles Dermer is a researcher in the HIGH ENERGY SPACE RADIATIONS department of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA. He is co-author of the book High Energy Radiation from Black Holes, by Charles D. Dermer and Govind Menon.