Astrophysics at Very High Energies Saas-Fee Advanced Course 40. Swis
With the success of Cherenkov Astronomy and more recently with the launch of NASA’s Fermi mission, very-high-energy astrophysics has undergone a revolution in the last years. This book provides three comprehensive and up-to-date reviews of the recent adva
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Felix Aharonian Lars Bergström Charles Dermer
Astrophysics at Very High Energies
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Astrophysics at Very High Energies Saas-Fee Advanced Course 40 Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy Edited by R. Walter and M. Türler
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Felix Aharonian DIAS Dublin and MPIK Heidelberg Dublin Ireland
Charles Dermer Space Science Division U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Washington USA
and Max Planck Institute für Kernphysik Heidelberg Germany Lars Bergström Department of Physics Stockholm University Stockholm Sweden
Volume Editors Roland Walter Marc Türler ISDC, Geneva Observatory University of Geneva, Versoix Switzerland
This Series is edited on behalf of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy: Société Suisse d’Astrophysique et d’Astronomie Observatoire de Genève, ch. des Maillettes 51, CH-1290 Sauverny, Switzerland Cover Illustration: A composite image of the Crab Nebula showing the X-ray (blue), and optical (red) images superimposed. The X-ray emitting region is smaller because the higher energy X-ray emitting electrons radiate away their energy more quickly than the lower energy optically emitting electrons. The inner ring is about one light year across (Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/ASU/J. Hester et al.; Optical: NASA/HST/ASU/J. Hester et al.). The inset features the gamma-ray variability of the central part of the pulsar wind nebula, as observed by the Fermi/LAT, indicating that electrons are accelerated up to PeV energies, the highest energy electrons ever measured (Credit: ISDC/M. Balbo).
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