Publication year: 2005
ISBN: 978-3-540-27013-3
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After three decades of intense research in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, the time was ripe to summarize basic knowledge on X-ray and gamma-ray spectroscopy for interested students and researchers ready to become involved in new high-energy missions. This volume exposes both the scientific basics and modern methods of high-energy spectroscopic astrophysics. The emphasis is on physical principles and observing methods rather than a discussion of particular classes of high-energy objects, but many examples and new results are included in the three chapters as well.
Subject: Physics and Astronomy, Accretion, Gamma Ray Spectroscopy, Spectroscopy Astrophysics, X-ray spectroscopy, astronomy, astrophysics, instruments, spectroscopy