High-Energy Spectroscopic Astrophysics Saas-Fee Advanced Course 30 2000. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy /

• Main Authors: Kahn, Steven M. (Author), Sunyaev, Rashid A. (Author), Ballmoos, Peter von (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Saas-Fee Advanced Course ; 30
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.

After three decades of intense research in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, the time was ripe to summarize basic knowledge on X-ray and gamma-ray spectroscopy for interested students and researchers ready to become involved in new high-energy missions. This volume exposes both the scientific basics an...

Table of Contents:

• Soft X-Ray Spectroscopy of Astrophysical Plasmas (Steven M. Kahn): Classical and Quantum Radiation Theory
• The Structure of Multi-Electron Atoms
• Electron-Ion Collisional Processes
• Discrete Line Diagnostics
• Concluding Remarks
• Instruments for Nuclear Astrophysics (Peter von Ballmoos): Introduction
• Interaction of High-Energy Photons with Matter
• Detectors
• The Instruments for Nuclear Astronomy
• Hard X-Ray and Gamma Ray Spectroscopy (Rashid Sunyaev and Sergey Sazonov): Fundamentals of Compton Scattering
• Comptonization in Infinite Homogeneous Media
• Comptonization in Bounded Plasma Clouds
• Interaction of X-Rays with Partially Ionized Media
• 6.4-keV Fluorescent Emission from Molecular Clouds in the Galactic Center
• X-Ray Emission from Supernova 1987A
• Accretion onto Black Holes and Neutron Stars.