Tutorial Guide to X-ray and Gamma-ray Astronomy

Data Reduction and Analysis
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-981-15-6336-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 606 g

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy. The first part discusses the basic theoretical and observational topics related to black hole astrophysics; the optics and the detectors employed in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy; and past, present, and future X-ray and gamma-ray missions. The second part then describes data reduction and analysis, the statistics used in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, and demonstrates how to write a successful proposal and a scientific paper. Data reduction in connection with specific X-ray and gamma-ray missions is covered in the appendices. Presenting the state of the art in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, this is both a valuable textbook for students and an important reference resource for researchers in the field.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bambi, Cosimo

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomische Beobachtung: Observatorien, Instrumente, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The High Energy Window.- Emission processes in Active Galactic Nuclei.- AGN as a high energy laboratory.- How to detect X-rays and gamma-rays from space: optics and detectors.- Past, present, and future X-ray and gamma-ray missions.- From raw data to scientific products: images, light curves and spectra.- Statistics.- Data analysis (tutorials in the appendices).- How to put your data analysis and interpretation into a scientific paper.

Über Autor(innen)

Cosimo Bambi is Xie Xide Junior Chair Professor at the Department of Physics at Fudan University (China). He received his Ph.D. from Ferrara University (Italy) in 2007 and was a postdoc at Wayne State University (Michigan), IPMU at The University of Tokyo (Japan), and at LMU Munich (Germany). He moved to Fudan University at the end of 2012 under the Thousand Young Talents Program. His research interests cover several areas in gravity, cosmology, and high-energy astrophysics. He has published more than 100 papers on refereed journals as first or corresponding author, has over 3,500 citations, and his h-index is 36. He has authored three books, and edited one volume (in ASSL) with Springer.