LEADER 03203nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910438111603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-69754-8 010 $a3-642-30970-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-642-30970-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000279447 035 $a(EBL)1030572 035 $a(OCoLC)813393255 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000767043 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11943493 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000767043 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10733002 035 $a(PQKB)10105838 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-642-30970-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1030572 035 $a(PPN)16831813X 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000279447 100 $a20120906d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHigh energy astrophysics $ean introduction /$fThierry J.-L. Courvoisier 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 $aNew York $cSpringer$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 225 0$aAstronomy and astrophysics library,$x0941-7834 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-642-43684-6 311 $a3-642-30969-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Physical processes -- pt. 2. Astrophysical objects. 330 $aHigh-energy astrophysics has unveiled a Universe very different from that only known from optical observations. It has revealed many types of objects in which typical variability timescales are as short as years, months, days, and hours (in quasars, X-ray binaries, and other objects), and even down to milli-seconds in gamma ray bursts. The sources of energy that are encountered are only very seldom nuclear fusion, and most of the time gravitation, a paradox when one thinks that gravitation is, by many orders of magnitude, the weakest of the fundamental interactions. The understanding of these objects' physical conditions and the processes revealed by high-energy astrophysics in the last decades is nowadays part of astrophysicists' culture, even of those active in other domains of astronomy. This book evolved from lectures given to master and PhD students at the University of Geneva since the early 1990s. It aims at providing astronomers and physicists intending to be active in high-energy astrophysics a broad basis on which they should be able to build the more specific knowledge they will need. While in the first part of the book the physical processes are described and derived in detail, the second part studies astrophysical objects in which high-energy astrophysics plays a crucial role. This two-pronged approach will help students recognise physical processes by their observational signatures in contexts that may differ widely from those presented here. 410 0$aAstronomy and Astrophysics Library,$x0941-7834 606 $aAstrophysics 615 0$aAstrophysics. 676 $a523.01 700 $aCourvoisier$b T.$f1953-$01756656 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910438111603321 996 $aHigh energy astrophysics$94194085 997 $aUNINA