Cosmic Gamma-Ray Sources
Gamma-ray astronomy has undergone an enormous progress in the last 15 years. The success of satellite experiments like NASA's Comp ton Gamma-Ray Observatory and ESA's INTEGRAL mission, as well as of ground-based instruments have open new views into the h
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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY VOLUME 304
EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W.B. BURTON, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. ([email protected]); University of Leiden, The Netherlands ([email protected])
Executive Committee J. M. E. KUIJPERS, Faculty of Science, Nijmegen, The Netheriands E. P. J. VAN DEN HEUVEL, Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netheriands H. VAN DER LAAN, Astronomicai Institute, University of Utrecht, The Nether/ands MEMBERS 1. APPENZELLER, Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Konigstuhi, Germany J. N. BAHCALL, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, U.S.A. F. BERTOLA, Universitâ di Padova, Itaiy J. P. CASSINELLI, University ofWisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. C. J. CESARSKY, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, Gij-sur-Yvette Cedex, France O. ENGVOLD, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway R. McCRAY, University of Colorado, JILA, Bouider, U.S.A. P. G. MURDIN, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, u.K. F. PACINI, Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze, Italy V. RADHAKRISHNAN, Raman Research Institute, Banga/ore, India K. SATO, Schooi of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan F. H. SHU, University of California, Berkeley, u.s.A. B. V. SOMOV, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State Un iversity, Russia R. A. SUNYAEV, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia Y. TANAKA, Institute of Space & Astronautical Science, Kanagawa, Japan s. TREMAINE, CITA, Princeton University, U.S.A. N. O. WEISS, University of Cambridge, u.K.
COSMIC GAMMA-RAY SOURCES Edited by K.S. CHENG University
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Preface
Gamma-ray astronomy has undergone an enormous progress in the last 15 years. The success of satellite experiments like NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory and ESA's INTEGRAL mission, as well as of ground-based instruments have open new views into the high-energy Universe. Different classes of cosmic gamma-ray sources have been now detected at different energies, in addition to young radio pulsars and gamma-ray bursts, the classical ones. The new sources include radioquiet pulsars, microquasars, supernova remnants, starburst galaxies, r
