Cosmic Ray Astrophysics
This book provides an exhaustive account of the origin and dynamics of cosmic rays. Divided into three parts, it first gives an up-to-date summary of the observational data, then -- in the following theory section -- deals with the kinetic description of
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ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS LIBRARY I. Appenzeller, Heidelberg, Germany G. Bömer, Garehing, Germany M. A. Dopita, Canberra, Australia M. Harwit, Washington, DC, USA R. Kippenhahn, Göttingen, Germany J. Lequeux, Paris, France A. Maeder, Sauvemy, Switzerland V. Trimble, College Park, MD, and Irvine, CA, USA
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Reinhard Schlickeiser
Cosmic Ray Astrophysics With 164 Figures
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Professor Dr. Reinhard Schlickeiser Ruhr-Universität Bochum Theoretische Physik IV 44780 Bochum, Germany
Cover picture: The magnetic field structure in the external edge-on galaxy NGC 4631 derived from radio polarization measurements at A = 20 cm wavelength by Hummel et al. (1988 [232])
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Schlickeiser, R. (Reinhard), 1952-. Cosmic ray astrophysics/ R. Schlickeiser. p. cm. - (Astronomy and astrophysics library, ISSN 0941-7834). Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 3540664653 (hardcover: alk. paper) I. Cosmic rays. I. Title. II. Series. QC485.S334 2000 523.01 '97223-dc21 99-089515
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Preface
This book is based on aseries of lectures that were given at the universities of Bonn and Bochum to undergraduate and graduate students from the departments of physics and astronomy. The book is intended as an introduction to the physics and astrophysics of cosmic rays. I am grateful to many colleagues, friends and students for their support and encouragement. I am especially grateful to the undergraduate and graduate students for whom I have been thesis advisor: their work appears throughout these pages. The l
