Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 321 pages)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9789813276871
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9789813276864
Content:
Cosmic [gamma]-ray timeline -- A serendipitous observation -- Photography, simulations, detectors -- Detection strategies -- Prototyping a TeV imager -- Image compactness selection -- Ongoing data fidelity issues -- Crab -- first TeV source, 1989 -- Dedicated workshops -- XRB Rayleigh powers -- Imaging refinements -- Supercuts -- Markarian 421 -- [Gamma]/Hadron in perspective -- TeV [gamma]-ray astronomy in 2018
Content:
"TeV gamma-ray astronomy is a mature and highly successful discipline with more than 200 established TeV point sources, many of which have been individually probed and studied in great detail. Much of the observational work is done using the now well-established imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique. Quite how TeV gamma-ray astronomy has evolved to a 4th-generation of sophistication is a very interesting story, one that is neither well documented, nor appreciated across the broader astronomical community. This book documents how TeV gamma-ray astronomy painstakingly emerged from 20th century traditional cosmic-ray physics to become, in time, a keystone feature of contemporary high-energy astrophysics that is central to our understanding of high-energy processes and interactions in the cosmos, linking traditional particle physics to a multitude of astrophysical phenomena. The author takes the reader through many decades of exploration and investigation with the use of no more than a few equations. This book is suitable for astronomers, astrophysicists, experimentalists working across a variety of cognate disciplines including astronomy in different wavebands, particle physics, and high energy physics"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789813276857
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fegan, David Cherenkov reflections New Jersey : World Scientific, 2019 ISBN 9789813276857
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9813276851
Language:
English
Keywords:
Gammaastronomie
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Čerenkov-Zähler
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Electronic books
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1142/11171
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