High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy

Frits Paerels

ISBN 10: 1441998837 / ISBN 13: 9781441998835

Editore: Springer New York, Springer US Apr 2011, 2011

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Neuware -High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy has become a powerful tool for astrophysics since the launch of Chandra and XMM-Newton, ten years ago. The grating spectrometers on both instruments still continue to provide excellent data, while imaging calorimeters are being prepared for future missions like Astro-H and IXO. The synergy with other wavelength bands like the UV has been boosted by the addition of COS to HST. X-ray spectroscopy offers unique diagnostics to study almost any object in the Universe. This book contains review papers on highlights and the state-of-the-art of X-ray spectroscopy for a broad range of objects and on the prospects for future studies.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 284 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy
• Editore: Springer New York, Springer US Apr 2011
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1441998837
• ISBN 13: 9781441998835
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 241 L x 160 A x 23 P (millimetri) 241 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 23 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 646 grammi

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Riassunto

High-resolution X-ray spectroscopy has become a powerful tool for astrophysics since the launch of Chandra and XMM-Newton, ten years ago. The grating spectrometers on both instruments still continue to provide excellent data, while imaging calorimeters are being prepared for future missions like Astro-H and IXO. The synergy with other wavelength bands like the UV has been boosted by the addition of COS to HST. X-ray spectroscopy offers unique diagnostics to study almost any object in the Universe. This book contains review papers on highlights and the state-of-the-art of X-ray spectroscopy for a broad range of objects and on the prospects for future studies.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jelle Kaastra is a senior scientist at the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research. He has been working on high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of astrophysical plasmas since 1985.

Frits Paerels teaches astronomy at Columbia University in New York.