UID:
almahu_9949199575602882
Format:
XIV, 421 p.
,
online resource.
Edition:
1st ed. 1995.
ISBN:
9789401100670
Series Statement:
Nato Science Series C:, Mathematical and Physical Sciences ; 461
Content:
This volume consists of invited lectures and seminars presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute "The Gamma Ray Sky with COMPTON GRO and SIGMA" , which was held at the Centre de Physique Theorique of Les Houches (France) in January / February 1994. The school has been planned by a Scientific Organizing Committee. It was organized with the aim of providing students and young researchers with an up-to-date account of the high-energy phenomena in the vicinity of compact objets and the diffuse gamma-ray backgrounds after the early results from the gamma-ray telescope SIGMA and the four instruments onboard COMPTON GRO (Gamma Ray Observatory) : BATSE (Burst and Transient Source Experiment),COMPTEL(Compto'l Telescope),EGRET (Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope) and OS SE(Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment) . It was attended by more than sixty researchers from many countries. The lectures and seminars represent a complete coverage of our present knowledge and understanding of: Gamma-ray backgrounds, Gamma-ray Burts,Active Galactic Nuclei,Galactic Compact Objects, Gamma-ray Spectroscopy, Instrumentation and observation techniques, etc ... Most of these lectures are reproduced in this volume. Unfortunately, a few lecturers have chosen not to submit their manuscript.
Note:
I. Introductory Lecturers -- . The COMPTON Gamma Ray Observatory: Highlights from the First Three Years of the Mission -- . Overview of the SIGMA Results -- . TEV Gamma Ray Astronomy, Techniques -- II. Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Sources -- . High-Energy Radiation from Active Galactic Nuclei: Implications for AGN Unification Scenarios -- . Modelling the High Energy Spectra of AGN -- . Multi-wavelength Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei -- . OSSE Observations of Galactic Nuclei -- . EGRET Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei -- . TEV Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Extragalactic Sources -- III. Gamma - Ray Backgrounds -- . Diffuse Gamma Rays from WIMP Decay and Annihilation -- . The Diffuse ? Ray from Cosmic Ray Interactions in the Galaxy -- . Diffuse Galactic Continuum Emission -- . EGRET Observations of the Diffuse Galactic and Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Backgrounds -- IV. Galactic Gamma-Ray Sources -- . The Equation of State of Dense Matter -- . Binary Pulsar Shock Emission as Galactic Gamma-Ray Sources -- . TEV Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Galactic Sources -- . EGRET Observations of Galactic Gamma-Ray Sources -- . BATSE Observations of Galactic Black Hole Canditates -- . Observations of Discrete Galactic Sources with OSSE -- V. The Galactic Center -- . SIGMA Observations of the Galactic Center in the Hard X-Ray and Soft ? Ray Regime -- . Balloon Observations of the Galactic Center 511keV line and their Relationship to Satellite Results -- VI. Gamma - Ray Spectroscopy -- . Gamma-Ray Producing Radioactivities from Supernova Explosions -- . Astrophysical Gamma-Ray Lines from Accelerated Particle Interactions -- . Gamma-Ray Line Observations with the COMPTEL Imaging Telescope -- . Gamma-Ray Line Observational Results from OSSE -- VII. Gamma-Ray Bursts -- . Gamma-Ray Bursts: Theoretical Considerations -- . Statistics of the Gamma-Ray Burst Population -- . Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts -- . Inquisitive Correlations in the BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Data -- . Gamma Ray Bursts, Inverse Compton Scaterring and the precessing jets in galactic halo -- VIII Conclusion -- Summary -- Author Index.
In:
Springer Nature eBook
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9789401040358
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9780792334408
Additional Edition:
Printed edition: ISBN 9789401100687
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-011-0067-0
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0067-0
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