High Energy Radiation from Black Holes : : Gamma Rays, Cosmic Rays, and Neutrinos / / Govind Menon, Charles D. Dermer.

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• VerfasserIn: Dermer, Charles D.,; Menon, Govind,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series in Astrophysics ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (568 p.) :; 115 line illus.

Bright gamma-ray flares observed from sources far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy are best explained if enormous amounts of energy are liberated by black holes. The highest- energy particles in nature--the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays--cannot be confined by the Milky Way's magnetic field, and must...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Chapter One. Introduction
• Chapter Two. Relativistic Kinematics
• Chapter Four. Physical Cosmology
• Chapter Five. Radiation Physics of Relativistic Flows
• Chapter Six. Compton Scattering
• Chapter Seven. Synchrotron Radiation
• Chapter Eight. Binary Particle Collision Processes
• Chapter Nine. Photohadronic Processes
• Chapter Nine. Pair Production
• Chapter Eleven. Blast-Wave Physics
• Chapter Twelve. Introduction to Fermi Acceleration
• Chapter Thirteen. First-Order Fermi Acceleration
• Chapter Fourteen. Second-Order Fermi Acceleration
• Chapter Fifteen. The Geometry of Spacetime
• Chapter Sixteen. Black-Hole Electrodynamics
• Chapter Seventeen. High-Energy Radiations from Black Holes
• Appendix A. Essential Tensor Calculus
• Appendix B. Mathematical Functions
• Appendix C. Solutions of the Continuity Equation
• Appendix D. Basics of Monte Carlo Calculations
• Appendix E. Supplementary Information
• Appendix F. Glossary and Acronym List
• References
• Index