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Astrophysics at Very High Energies

Astrophysics at Very High Energies


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Very high energy gamma ray domain.- Why VHE gamma rays?.- Why VHE gamma rays?.- Detection technique.- VHE gamma-ray source populations.- VHE gamma-ray source populations.- Non-thermal processes in supernova remnants.- Non-thermal processes in supernova remnants.- Pulsar wind nebulae (plerions) and gamma ray loud binary systems.- Pulsar wind nebulae (plerions) and gamma ray loud binary systems.- TeV blazars and the extragalactic background light.- Multi-messenger astronomy and dark matter.- Lecture programme: The particle universe: introduction, cosmological parameters.- Basic cross sections for neutrinos and gamma-rays; IceCube.- Density of relic particles from the early Universe.- Dark matter: Direct and indirect detection methods; the galactic centre & other promising DM sources.- Neutrinos and antimatter from dark matter, Sommerfeld enhancement.- Particular dark matter candidates (WIMPS, Kaluza-Klein particles, sterile neutrinos, ...).- Super-symmetric dark matter, DarkSUSY.- Diffuse extragalactic gamma-rays, primordial black holes, Hawking radiation.- Gravitational waves.- Sources of GeV photons and Fermi results.- Lecture programme: GeV instrumentation and the GeV sky with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.- First Fermi Catalog of Gamma Ray Sources and the Fermi Pulsar Catalog.- First Fermi AGN Catalog.- Relativistic jet physics and blazers.- Gamma rays from cosmic rays in the Galaxy.- Gamma rays from star-forming galaxies and clusters of galaxies, and the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background.- Microquasars, radio galaxies, and the extragalactic background light.- Fermi observations of Gamma Ray Bursts.- Fermi acceleration, ultra-high energy cosmic rays, and Fermi.


About the Author: 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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783642361333
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: 2013 ed.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 684 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3642361331
  • Publisher Date: 17 Apr 2013
  • Depth: 25
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 361
  • Series Title: Saas-Fee Advanced Course
  • Sub Title: SAAS-Fee Advanced Course 40. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
  • Width: 160 mm


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