Preface |
Introduction and Motivation / Chapter 1: |
The Field of High-Energy Astrophysics / 1.1: |
Energies, Luminosities, and Timescales / 1.2: |
Atmospheric Absorption / 1.3: |
Experimental Tools of High-Energy Astrophysics / 1.4: |
High-Energy Telescopes / 1.5: |
The High-Energy Sky / Chapter 2: |
X-ray Maps Up to 10 keV / 2.1: |
The Sky Between 10 keV and 1 MeV / 2.2: |
Surveys up to 30 MeV / 2.3: |
The Highest Energy Maps Produced in Earth Orbit / 2.4: |
Relativity / Chapter 3: |
Special Relativity / 3.1: |
Relativistic Transformation of Physical Laws / 3.2: |
General Relativity / 3.3: |
Static Spacetimes / 3.4: |
Particle Acceleration / Chapter 4: |
Gravity / 4.1: |
Electromagnetic Fields / 4.2: |
Fermi Acceleration / 4.3: |
Radiative Processes / Chapter 5: |
The Radiation Field / 5.1: |
Intensity / 5.2: |
Thermal Bremsstrahlung / 5.3: |
Single-Particle Synchrotron Emissivity / 5.4: |
Thermal Synchrotron / 5.5: |
Nonthermal Synchrotron / 5.6: |
Compton Scattering / 5.7: |
Accretion of Plasma / Chapter 6: |
Hydrodynamics / 6.1: |
Bondi-Hoyle Accretion / 6.2: |
Roche Lobe Geometry in Binaries and Accretion from a Companion Star / 6.3: |
Formation of a Disk / 6.4: |
Accretion Disk Theory / Chapter 7: |
Viscosity and Radial Disk Structure / 7.1: |
Standard Thin-Disk Theory / 7.2: |
Accretion Columns / 7.3: |
Two-Temperature Thin Disks / 7.4: |
Thick Accretion Disks / Chapter 8: |
Thick-Disk Structure / 8.1: |
Radiatively Inefficient Flows / 8.2: |
Pulsing Sources / Chapter 9: |
Radio Pulsars / 9.1: |
X-ray Pulsars / 9.2: |
Cataclysmic Variables / 9.3: |
Black Holes in Binaries / Chapter 10: |
Early Discovery of Black Holes / 10.1: |
The Archetypal HMXB Cygnus X-1 / 10.2: |
X-ray Novae / 10.3: |
QPOs in Black-Hole Binaries / 10.4: |
Bursting Stars / Chapter 11: |
X-ray Burst Sources / 11.1: |
Gamma-Ray Burst Sources / 11.2: |
Supermassive Black Holes / Chapter 12: |
Their Discovery and Identification / 12.1: |
Nearby Objects / 12.2: |
Supermassive Black Holes in AGNs / 12.3: |
The High-Energy Background / Chapter 13: |
Cosmic Rays / 13.1: |
Galaxy Clusters / 13.2: |
Diffuse Emission / 13.3: |
Bibliography |
Index |
The High-Energy. Sky |
Preface |
Introduction and Motivation / Chapter 1: |
The Field of High-Energy Astrophysics / 1.1: |
Energies, Luminosities, and Timescales / 1.2: |
Atmospheric Absorption / 1.3: |
Experimental Tools of High-Energy Astrophysics / 1.4: |