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Gamma ray astronomy. --- Gamma ray astronomy --- Rayons gamma --- Astronomie gamma.

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Gamma ray astronomy --- Gamma rays --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- Gamma ray astronomy - Congresses. --- Gamma rays - Congresses.

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Astronomy is an observational science, renewed and even revolutionized by new developments in instrumentation. With the resulting growth of multiwavelength investigation as an engine of discovery, it is increasingly important for astronomers to understand the underlying physical principles and operational characteristics for a broad range of instruments. This comprehensive text is ideal for graduate students, active researchers and instrument developers. It is a thorough review of how astronomers obtain their data, covering current approaches to astronomical measurements from radio to gamma rays. The focus is on current technology rather than the history of the field, allowing each topic to be discussed in depth. Areas covered include telescopes, detectors, photometry, spectroscopy, adaptive optics and high-contrast imaging, millimeter-wave and radio receivers, radio and optical/infrared interferometry, and X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, all at a level that bridges the gap between the basic principles of optics and the subject's abundant specialist literature. Color versions of figures and solutions to selected problems are available online at www.cambridge.org/9780521762298.

Radio astronomy. --- Infrared astronomy. --- Gamma ray astronomy. --- X-ray astronomy. --- Science --- Astronomy. --- Astronomy --- Space astronomy --- X-rays --- Infra-red astronomy --- Radioastronomy --- Interstellar communication

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For over 25 years, gamma-ray bursts were the outstanding mystery in astronomy. No one knew where they were or how they worked. This book tells how the mystery was unravelled, from the discovery of bursts by a satellite system to their observation.

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Bright gamma-ray flares observed from sources far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy are best explained if enormous amounts of energy are liberated by black holes. The highest- energy particles in nature--the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays--cannot be confined by the Milky Way's magnetic field, and must originate from sources outside our Galaxy. Understanding these energetic radiations requires an extensive theoretical framework involving the radiation physics and strong-field gravity of black holes. In High Energy Radiation from Black Holes, Charles Dermer and Govind Menon present a systematic exposition of black-hole astrophysics and general relativity in order to understand how gamma rays, cosmic rays, and neutrinos are produced by black holes. Beginning with Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, the authors give a detailed mathematical description of fundamental astrophysical radiation processes, including Compton scattering of electrons and photons, synchrotron radiation of particles in magnetic fields, photohadronic interactions of cosmic rays with photons, gamma-ray attenuation, Fermi acceleration, and the Blandford-Znajek mechanism for energy extraction from rotating black holes. The book provides a basis for graduate students and researchers in the field to interpret the latest results from high-energy observatories, and helps resolve whether energy released by rotating black holes powers the highest-energy radiations in nature. The wide range of detail will make High Energy Radiation from Black Holes a standard reference for black-hole research.

Black holes (Astronomy) --- Cosmic rays. --- Gamma ray astronomy. --- Neutrinos. --- Astronomy --- Space astronomy --- Millikan rays --- Extraterrestrial radiation --- Ionizing radiation --- Nuclear physics --- Radioactivity --- Space environment --- Frozen stars --- Compact objects (Astronomy) --- Gravitational collapse --- Stars --- Neutret --- Leptons (Nuclear physics) --- Neutrons