Tutorial Guide to X-ray and Gamma-ray Astronomy: Data Reduction and Analysis - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 9811563381 ISBN 13: 9789811563386

Casa editrice: Springer, 2020

Riassunto

Preface

Contents

1. The High Energy Window

1.1 Some fundamental concepts

2. Emission processes in Active Galactic Nuclei [Bambi, Grandi, Torresi,...]

2.1 Thermal processes:

2.1.1 Optically thick and geometrically thin disk

2.1.2 Hot corona: x-ray production by Thermal Comptonization

2.1.3 X-ray reprocessing: iron line and Compton hump

2.1.4 ADAF

2.2 Non thermal Processes

2.1 Synchrotron radiation

2.2 Inverse Compton

2.3 SSC

2.4 Hadronic cascade

3. AGN as a high energy laboratory [Grandi, Torresi,...]

3.1 AGN: why do we study them?

3.2 Spectral energy Distribution

3.2.1 Radio quiet AGN

3.2.1.1 Accretion disk and soft excess

3.2.1.2 Iron line and reflection

3.2.1.3 Warm absorber and winds

3.2.2 Radio Loud AGN

3.2.2.1 Core

3.2.2.2 Jets on kpc scales

3.2.2.3 Radio lobes

3.3 Classification of AGN

3.3.1 Optical classification

3.3.2 Radio classification

3.3.3 Doppler Boosting

3.4 Radio Quiet - Radio Loud AGN

3.4.1 Radio Loudness

3.4.2 Tomography of an AGN

3.5 Unification of accreting black holes through all mass scales

4. How to detect X-rays and gamma-rays from space: optics and detectors [Bulgarelli,

Fioretti]

4.1 Matter and radiation interaction

4.1.1 Photoelectric effect

4.1.2 Compton effect

4.1.3 Pair production

4.2 Fundamental Concepts

4.2.1 Quantum efficiency

4.2.2 Effective Area

4.2.3 Energy redistribution

4.2.4 Sensitivity

4.2.5 Spatial Resolution

4.2.6 Angular Resolution

4.3 Detectors

4.3.1 Scintillator (including scintillators for gamma-ray astronomy)

4.3.2 Microchannel Plate

4.3.3 CdTe

4.3.4 CZT

4.3.5 CCD

4.3.6 Spark chambers

4.3.7 Silicon strip detectors

4.3.8 Calorimeters

4.4 Mirror and focussing of photons

4.4.1 Collimated System

4.4.2 Focussing System

4.5 Monte Carlo Simulations of X-ray and Gamma-ray Telescope

4.5.1 Toolkits and frameworks

4.5.2 Space radiation environment

4.5.3 Spacecraft and payload mass modeling

4.5.4 Analysis pipeline for the residual background evaluation

5 Past, present, and future X-ray and gamma-ray missions [Bulgarelli, Guainazzi,

Pollock, ...]

5.1 The discovery of astrophysical X-ray sources

5.2 The initial surveys

5.3 The first observatories

5.3.1 Explorer-11

5.3.2 OSO-3

5.3.3 SAS-2

5.3.4 COS-B

5.3.5 Einstein

5.3.6 EXOSAT

5.3.7 CGRO (A general introduction here to provide the big view: more

details in 5.8.2 and 5.9.2)

5.4 Imaging proportional counters

5.4.1 The ROSAT PSPC

5.4.2 The ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS)

5.4.3 The broad-band perspective

5.4.3.1 BeppoSAX

5.4.3.2 Astrosat

5.4.3.3 HXMT

5.4.4 High-resolution timing

5.5 X-ray CCD astrophysics

5.5.1 Spectroscopic imaging of thermal plasmas

5.5.1.2 SNRs

5.5.1.3 Galaxies

5.5.1.4 Galaxy clusters

5.5.2 Surveys and the XRB

5.5.3 Serendipitous source catalogs

5.5.3.1 The Chandra Source Catalog

5.5.3.2 The XMM-Newton EPIC Source Catalog

5.5.3.3 The XMM-Newton Slew Catalog

5.5.3.4 The Swift XRT catalogs

5.6 The path towards hard X-ray focusing

5.6.1 The BeppoSAX/PDS

5.6.2 Suzaku

5.6.3 NuSTAR: the focusing revolution

5.7 High-resolution spectroscopy

5.7.1 Gratings versus calorimeters

5.7.2 Diagnostics of inte

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9811563381
• ISBN 13: 9789811563386
• Rilegatura: Paperback
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