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Cosmic Gamma Rays, Neutrinos, and Related Astrophysics

  • Maurice M. Shapiro
  • John P. Wefel
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Part of the NATO ASI Series book series (ASIC, volume 270)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Cosmic Gamma Rays and Cosmic Neutrinos

    1. Gamma Ray Astronomy - An Overview of the Galactic Diffuse Emission: The Origin and Confinement of Cosmic Rays
      Livio Scarsi
      Pages 1-20
    2. Photon and Neutrino-Emission from Shockwaves in Active Galactic Nuclei
      Peter L. Biermann
      Pages 21-37
    3. Production of Energetic Gamma-Rays and Neutrinos at Binary Systems
      Todor Stanev
      Pages 39-48
    4. Cosmic Gamma-Rays and Cosmic-Ray Neutrinos from Galactic and Solar Dark Matter Annihilation
      F. W. Stecker
      Pages 49-71
    5. Gamma Rays from Cygnus X-l: New Diagnostics for a Black Hole
      Edison P. Liang
      Pages 73-84
    6. Gamma-Ray Astronomy and the Holistic Galaxy
      F. W. Stecker
      Pages 85-119
    7. The Neutrino Signal from SN 1987A
      A. W. Wolfendale
      Pages 121-129
    8. On the Spectrum of Neutrinos from SN 1987A
      A. E. Chudakov, Ya S. Elensky, S. P. Mikheyev
      Pages 131-138
    9. A Comment on Ve/Vµ Ratio in Atmospheric Neutrino Fluxes
      L. V. Volkova
      Pages 139-140
    10. Fluxes of Muons and Neutrinos Generated by Primary Radiation on the Moon
      L. V. Volkova
      Pages 141-144
    11. Three-Neutrino Oscillations in the Earth: Resonance Amplification and T-Violation Effects
      P. I. Krastev, S. T. Petcov
      Pages 145-161
    12. VHE and UHE Gamma Ray Astronomy: History and Problems
      A. E. Chudakov
      Pages 163-182
    13. Ultra High Energy Astronomy
      Gaurang B. Yodh
      Pages 183-210
    14. On the 100 TeV UHE Gamma-Ray Data from Cygnus X-3 and Hercules X-l in 1986
      A. E. Chudakov, G. Navarra, V. A. Tizengauzen
      Pages 211-214
    15. Ultra High Energy Radiation from Hercules X-l; New Physics Above 100 TEV ?
      Gaurang B. Yodh, B. L. Dingus, J. A. Goodman, D. Krakauer, C. Y. Chang, R. L. Talaga et al.
      Pages 215-233
    16. UHE Gamma Ray Observations with the KGF Air Shower Array
      B. S. Acharya, P. N. Bhat, S. G. Khairatkar, M. R. Rajeev, M. V. S. Rao, S. Sinha et al.
      Pages 235-243
    17. Observation of TeV Gamma-rays from the Crab Nebula
      P. W. Kwok, M. F. Cawley, D. J. Fegan, K. G. Gibbs, A. M. Hillas, R. C. Lamb et al.
      Pages 245-252
    18. Search for Pulsed TeV Emission from PSR0531+21
      G. Vacanti, M. F. Cawley, D. J. Fegan, K. G. Gibbs, A. M. Hillas, P. Kwok et al.
      Pages 253-258
    19. Constraints on the Production Mechanism of TeV γ-Rays in X-Ray Binaries
      Paul A. Johnson
      Pages 259-264
    20. Galactic Gamma Ray Line Spectroscopy — An Observational Overview
      Volker Schönfelder
      Pages 265-288
    21. Gamma-Ray Lines from Nucleosynthesis and from Cosmic-Ray and Solar-Flare Particle Interactions
      R. Silberberg, M. D. Leising, R. J. Murphy
      Pages 289-319
    22. Gamma-Ray Lines from Supernova 1987A
      Mark D. Leising
      Pages 321-328
    23. Solar Abundances Using Gamma-Ray Line Spectroscopy of a Solar Flare
      R. J. Murphy
      Pages 329-336
    24. Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts
      K. Hurley
      Pages 337-379
    25. Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Physical Perspective
      Richard I. Epstein
      Pages 381-400
    26. The Gamma Ray Observatory GRO in Perspective
      V. Schönfelder
      Pages 401-422
    27. GRANDE: An Experiment to Search for Cosmic Gamma Rays and Cosmic Neutrinos
      Todd Haines
      Pages 423-430
    28. Cosmic Ray Tracking — A New Approach To High Energy γ — Astronomy
      J. Heintze, P. Lennert, S. Polenz, B. Schmidt, W. Brückner, B. Povh et al.
      Pages 431-442
    29. ASGAT , A High Resolution Gamma Ray Telescope
      Vincent Basiuk
      Pages 443-448
    30. Themistocle:A High Angular Resolution Cerenkov Light Detector
      Francis Kovacs
      Pages 449-456
    31. Ultrashort Electromagnetic Showers in Single Crystals: Applications in High-Energy γ-Ray Astronomy ?
      K. Elsener, S. P. Møller, J. B. B. Petersen, E. Uggerhøj
      Pages 457-464

  3. Cosmic Radiation and Related Topics in Astrophysics

    1. Low-Energy Antiprotons in the Cosmic Rays
      M. H. Salamon
      Pages 465-473
    2. The Leap Experiment: Another Look at the Cosmic-Ray Low-Energy Antiproton Flux
      A. Moats, T. Bowen, R. Golden, R. Streitmatter, S. Stochaj, J. Ormes et al.
      Pages 475-479
    3. Cosmic Ray Elemental Abundances at High Energy
      Simon Swordy
      Pages 481-489
    4. Origin, Propagation and Distributed Acceleration of Cosmic Rays
      R. Silberberg, C. H. Tsao, J. R. Letaw
      Pages 491-511
    5. The Origin and Propagation of Cosmic Rays
      A. W. Wolfendale
      Pages 513-522
    6. Pulsars as Particle Accelerators — Some Features of the Machine Become Visible
      K. O. Thielheim
      Pages 523-536
    7. Electron Acceleration in Impulsive Solar Flares
      Wolfgang Dröge
      Pages 537-547
    8. High Energy Behaviour of Secondary to Primary Ratio
      Tadeusz Wibig
      Pages 549-553
    9. The Effect of a Variable Diffusion Coefficient on the Cutoff Spectra of Shock Accelerated Particles
      K. D. Fritz
      Pages 555-562
    10. The Search for Gravitational Waves
      Edoardo Amaldi
      Pages 563-607
    11. Neutron Stars, X-Rays, and Gravitational Waves
      Kent S. Wood
      Pages 609-616
    12. Possible New X-Ray Sources: Soliton Stars
      Hong-Yee Chiu
      Pages 617-626
    13. Analysis of the Data Recorded by the Mont Blanc Neutrino Detector and by the Maryland and Rome Gravitational Wave Detectors During SN1987A
      Edoardo Amaldi
      Pages 627-657
  4. Back Matter
    Pages 659-692
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About this book

Keywords

Supernova active galactic nuclei astronomy astrophysics black hole cosmic ray galaxies gamma-ray burst gravitation gravity moon neutron star observatory spectroscopy telescope

Editors and affiliations

  • Maurice M. Shapiro
    • 1
  • John P. Wefel
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of Physics and AstronomyUniversity of MarylandCollege ParkUSA
  2. 2.Department of Physics and AstronomyLouisiana State UniversityBaton RougeUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0921-2
  • Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1989
  • Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-94-010-6903-8
  • Online ISBN 978-94-009-0921-2
  • Series Print ISSN 1389-2185
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