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- 2008022287 abstract "This textbook covers all the essentials, weaving together the latest theory with the experimental techniques, instrumentation, and observational methods astronomers use to study high-energy radiation from space.".
- 2008022287 contributor B11097657.
- 2008022287 created "c2009.".
- 2008022287 date "2009".
- 2008022287 date "c2009.".
- 2008022287 dateCopyrighted "c2009.".
- 2008022287 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- 2008022287 description "Introduction and motivation. The field of high-energy astrophysics -- Energies, luminosities, and timescales -- Atmospheric absorption -- Experimental tools of high energy astrophysics -- High-energy telescopes -- The high-energy sky. X-ray maps up to 10 keV -- The sky between 10 keV and 1 MeV -- Surveys up to 30 MeV -- The highest energy maps produced in earth orbit -- Relativity. Special relativity -- Relativistic transformation of physical laws -- General relativity -- Static spacetimes -- Particle acceleration. Gravity -- Electromagnetic fields -- Fermi acceleration --".
- 2008022287 description "Pulsing sources. Radio pulsars -- X-ray pulsars -- Cataclysmic variables -- Black holes in binaries. Early discovery of black holes -- The archetypal HMXB Cygnus X-1 -- X-ray Novae -- QPOs in black-hole binaries -- Bursting stars. X-ray burst sources -- Gamma-ray burst sources -- Supermassive black holes in AGNs. Their discovery and identification -- Nearby objects -- Supermassive black holes in AGNs -- The high-energy background. Cosmic rays -- Galaxy clusters -- Diffuse emission.".
- 2008022287 description "Radiative processes. The radiation field -- Intensity -- Thermal Bremsstrahlung -- Single particle synchrotron emissivity -- Thermal synchrotron -- Nonthermal synchrotron -- Compton scattering -- Accretion of plasma. Hydrodynamics -- Bondi-Hoyle accretion -- Roche lobe geometry in binaries and accretion from a companion star -- Formation of a disk. Accretion disk theory -- Viscosity and radial disk structure -- Standard thin disk theory -- Accretion columns -- Two-temperature thin disks -- Thick accretion disks. Thick-disk structure -- Radiatively inefficient flows --".
- 2008022287 description "This textbook covers all the essentials, weaving together the latest theory with the experimental techniques, instrumentation, and observational methods astronomers use to study high-energy radiation from space.".
- 2008022287 extent "x, 360 p., [16] p. of plates :".
- 2008022287 identifier "0691135436".
- 2008022287 identifier "0691140294".
- 2008022287 identifier "9780691135434 (hc : alk. paper)".
- 2008022287 identifier "9780691140292 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- 2008022287 identifier 2008022287-b.html.
- 2008022287 identifier 2008022287-d.html.
- 2008022287 identifier 2008022287.html.
- 2008022287 isPartOf "Princeton series in astrophysics".
- 2008022287 isPartOf "Princeton series in astrophysics.".
- 2008022287 issued "2009".
- 2008022287 issued "c2009.".
- 2008022287 language "eng".
- 2008022287 publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- 2008022287 subject "523.01/97 22".
- 2008022287 subject "Astrophysics.".
- 2008022287 subject "Nuclear astrophysics.".
- 2008022287 subject "QB464 .M45 2009".
- 2008022287 tableOfContents "Introduction and motivation. The field of high-energy astrophysics -- Energies, luminosities, and timescales -- Atmospheric absorption -- Experimental tools of high energy astrophysics -- High-energy telescopes -- The high-energy sky. X-ray maps up to 10 keV -- The sky between 10 keV and 1 MeV -- Surveys up to 30 MeV -- The highest energy maps produced in earth orbit -- Relativity. Special relativity -- Relativistic transformation of physical laws -- General relativity -- Static spacetimes -- Particle acceleration. Gravity -- Electromagnetic fields -- Fermi acceleration --".
- 2008022287 tableOfContents "Pulsing sources. Radio pulsars -- X-ray pulsars -- Cataclysmic variables -- Black holes in binaries. Early discovery of black holes -- The archetypal HMXB Cygnus X-1 -- X-ray Novae -- QPOs in black-hole binaries -- Bursting stars. X-ray burst sources -- Gamma-ray burst sources -- Supermassive black holes in AGNs. Their discovery and identification -- Nearby objects -- Supermassive black holes in AGNs -- The high-energy background. Cosmic rays -- Galaxy clusters -- Diffuse emission.".
- 2008022287 tableOfContents "Radiative processes. The radiation field -- Intensity -- Thermal Bremsstrahlung -- Single particle synchrotron emissivity -- Thermal synchrotron -- Nonthermal synchrotron -- Compton scattering -- Accretion of plasma. Hydrodynamics -- Bondi-Hoyle accretion -- Roche lobe geometry in binaries and accretion from a companion star -- Formation of a disk. Accretion disk theory -- Viscosity and radial disk structure -- Standard thin disk theory -- Accretion columns -- Two-temperature thin disks -- Thick accretion disks. Thick-disk structure -- Radiatively inefficient flows --".
- 2008022287 title "High-energy astrophysics / Fulvio Melia.".
- 2008022287 type "text".