Elements of High-Energy Astrophysics

Prof. Gustavo Romero, Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía, CONICET, Argentina:

Cópia das aulas dadas

• Cosmic rays. History. General properties. Galactic cosmic rays. Extragalactic cosmic rays.

• Acceleration of charged particles. Acceleration in strong fields. Diffusive acceleration. Fermi mechanism. Shock acceleration in astrophysical settings. Examples.

• Radiative processes I. Basic concepts. Thermal radiation. Synchrotron radiation. Curvature radiation. Cherenkov radiation. Inverse Compton radiation.

• Radiative processes II. Relativistic Bremsstrahlung. Gamma radiation from neutral pion decay. Photo-hadron interactions. Neutrino production.

• Absorption. Photon absorption in nuclei. Photon-photon absorption. Photon absorption in a magnetic field.

• Detectors. Cherenkov telescopes. Satellite instruments: low energies : 1-10 MeV, medium energies: 10-100 MeV, high-energies: 100 MeV-1000 GeV. Neutrino telescopes.

• Astrophysical sources. Pulsars. Supernova remnants. Microquasars. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs).

Sistema de Avaliação: Haverá listas de exercícios.

Elements of High-Energy Astrophysics:

Bibliografia

1. Hillier Hillier, R., 1984, Gamma-Ray Astronomy, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
2. Ginzburg Ginzburg, V.L. and Syrovatskii, S.I., 1964, The Origin of Cosmic Rays, Pergamon Press, Oxford.
3. Berezinskii Berezinskii, V.S. et al. 1990, Astrophysics of Cosmic Rays, North-Holland, Amsterdam.
4. romero K.S. Cheng and G.E. Romero, 2004, Cosmic Gamma-Ray Sources, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
5. WeekesWeekes T.C., 2003, Very High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy, IoP, Bristol.
6. Schoenfelder Schoenfelder, V. 2001, The Universe in Gamma Rays, Springer, Berlin.

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