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Theirry J. -L. Courvoisier - High Energy Astrophysics - 9783642309694 - V9783642309694
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High Energy Astrophysics

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Description for High Energy Astrophysics Hardback. Discussing objects with variability timescales as short as years, months, days and hours, down to milli-seconds, this book describes and derives the physical processes of astrophysics and studies objects in which high-energy astrophysics processes are crucial. Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Num Pages: 348 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PHVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 652.

High-energy astrophysics has unveiled a Universe very different from that only known from optical observations. It has revealed many types of objects in which typical variability timescales are as short as years, months, days, and hours (in quasars, X-ray binaries, etc), and even down to milli-seconds in gamma ray bursts. The sources of energy that are encountered are only very seldom nuclear fusion, and most of the time gravitation, a paradox when one thinks that gravitation is, by many orders of magnitude, the weakest of the fundamental interactions. The understanding of these objects' physical conditions and the processes revealed by ... Read more

This book evolved from lectures given to master and PhD students at the University of Geneva since the early 1990s. It aims at providing astronomers and physicists intending to be active in high-energy astrophysics a broad basis on which they should be able to build the more specific knowledge they will need. While in the first part of the book the physical processes are described and derived in detail, the second part studies astrophysical objects in which high-energy astrophysics processes are crucial. This two-pronged approach will help students recognise physical processes by their observational signatures in contexts that may differ widely from those presented here.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
Series
Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642309694
SKU
V9783642309694
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About Theirry J. -L. Courvoisier
Thierry Courvoisier is professor for astronomy at the Department of Astronomy of the University of Geneva and director of the ISDC, Data Centre for Astrophysics. He made pioneering contributions to the research on quasars and their accretion flows, most notably on 3C 273. Prof. Courvoisier is the President of the European Astronomical Society, President of the Swiss Academy of ... Read more

Reviews for High Energy Astrophysics
From the reviews: “The aim of this new book is to present the objects revealed by high-energy astrophysical observation, to discuss the physical conditions met by these objects, and to explain the physical processes at work under these conditions. … The text of the present work is intended for readers close to the end of a master’s course or ... Read more

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