Extreme Particle Acceleration in Microquasar Jets and Pulsar Wind Nebulae with the MAGIC Telescopes

• Main Author: Fernández Barral, Alba (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Astrophysics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

This exhaustive work sheds new light on unsolved questions in gamma-ray astrophysics. It presents not only a complete introduction to the non-thermal Universe, but also a description of the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov technique and the MAGIC telescopes. The Fermi-LAT satellite and the HAWC Observa...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Introduction to the Non-thermal Universe
• Cosmic Rays and Gamma-ray Astrophysics
• Gamma-ray Telescopes
• Part II: Microquasars in the Very High-energy Gamma-ray Regime
• Microquasars, Binary Systems with Powerful Jets
• Cygnus X-1
• Cygnus X-3
• V404 Cygni
• Part III: PWNe in the Very High-energy Gamma-ray Regime
• Introduction to Pulsar Wind Nebulae
• Follow-up Studies of HAWC Sources
• PWN Studies Around High Spin-down Power Fermi-LAT Pulsars
• Part IV: Quality Control of LST Camera Subsystems
• Quality Control of LST Camera Subsystems
• Summary and Concluding Remarks.