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Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources

A Second Workshop on the Nature of the High-Energy Unidentified Sources

  • Can be considered as a thematic volume providing the most updated information currently available on the topic

  • Represents a step forward in the understanding of the physical processes of cosmic gamma-ray sources

  • Two new topics are included, i.e. gamma-ray bursts and microquasars

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Table of contents (46 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Regular Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Jets

    • Gennady Bisnovatyi-Kogan
    Pages 9-20
  3. The Converter Mechanism of Particle Acceleration and its Applications to the Unidentified EGRET Sources

    • E.V. Derishev, F.A. Aharonian, V.V. Kocharovsky, Vl.V. Kocharovsky
    Pages 21-30
  4. Beaming Effects in GRBs and Orphan Afterglows

    • Y.F. Huang, T. Lu, K.S. Cheng
    Pages 53-61
  5. Pulsar Slot Gaps and Unidentified EGRET Sources

    • Alice Harding, Alexander Muslimov
    Pages 63-70
  6. Radio-Loud and Radio-Quiet Gamma-Ray Pulsars from the Galaxy and the Gould Belt

    • P.L. Gonthier, R. Van Guilder, A.K. Harding, I.A. Grenier, C.A. Perrot
    Pages 71-80
  7. Pulsar Wind Nebulae in EGRET Error Boxes

    • Mallory S.E. Roberts, Crystal L. Brogan, Bryan M. Gaensler, Jason W.T. Hessels, C.-Y. Ng, Roger W. Romani
    Pages 93-100
  8. Pulsar Radio and Gamma-Ray Emission

    • R.N. Manchester
    Pages 101-108
  9. Unidentified γ-Ray Sources off the Galactic Plane as Low-Mass Microquasars?

    • I.A. Grenier, M.M. Kaufman Bernadó, G.E. Romero
    Pages 109-118
  10. On the Nature of the Variable Gamma-Ray Sources at Low Galactic Latitudes

    • Valentí Bosch-Ramon, Gustavo E. Romero, Josep M. Paredes
    Pages 119-129
  11. Spectral Properties of Black Holes in Gamma Rays

    • Sandip Kumar Chakrabarti
    Pages 131-142
  12. Gamma-Ray Emission from Be/X-Ray Binaries

    • M. Orellana, G.E. Romero
    Pages 167-178
  13. Low-Mass Quark Stars

    • Renxin Xu
    Pages 179-190
  14. The Spiral ARM Connection of EGRET Unidentified Sources

    • Torafumi Miyagi, Dipen Bhattacharya, Allen D. Zych
    Pages 191-199

About this book

Nearly one half of the point-like gamma-ray sources detected by EGRET instrument of the late Compton satellite are still defeating our attempts at identifying them. To establish the origin and nature of these enigmatic sources has become a major problem of current high-energy astrophysics. The second workshop on Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-ray Sources intends to shed new and fresh light on the problem of the nature of the unidentified gamma-ray sources.

The proceedings contain 46 contributed papers in this subject, which cover theoretical models on gamma-ray sources as well as the best multiwavelength strategies for the identification of the promising candidates. The topics of this conference also include energetic phenomena occurring both in galactic and extragalactic scenarios, phenomena that might lead to the appearance of what we have called high-energy unidentified sources.

The book will be of interest for all active researchers in the high-energy astrophysics and related research areas as well as for scientists and graduate students interested in understanding the recent progress in high-energy astrophysics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hong Kong, China

    K.S. Cheng

  • Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    G.E. Romero

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources

  • Book Subtitle: A Second Workshop on the Nature of the High-Energy Unidentified Sources

  • Editors: K.S. Cheng, G.E. Romero

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3881-X

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3214-1Published: 02 May 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6816-3Published: 19 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3881-5Published: 05 December 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 439

  • Additional Information: Reprinted from Astrophysics and Space Science journal, Vol. 297 Nos. 1-4, 2005

  • Topics: Particle and Nuclear Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Measurement Science and Instrumentation

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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