Radiative Processes in High Energy Astrophysics

• Main Author: Ghisellini, Gabriele (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 873
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Astrophysics.; Particle acceleration.; Plasma (Ionized gases).; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Plasma Physics.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Optics and Electrodynamics.

This book grew out of the author’s notes from his course on Radiative Processes in High Energy Astrophysics. The course provides fundamental definitions of radiative processes and serves as a brief introduction to Bremsstrahlung and black body emission, relativistic beaming, synchrotron emission and...

Table of Contents:

• Some Fundamental definitions
• Bremsstrahlung and Black Body
• Beaming
• Synchrotron Emission and Absorption
• Compton Scattering
• Synchrotron Self–Compton
• Pairs
• Active Galactic Nuclei
• References.