Péter Mészáros

The High Energy Universe

Ultra-High Energy Events in Astrophysics and Cosmology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An up-to-date overview of high energy, particle and gravitational astrophysics, suitable for undergraduate and graduate students and the general reader.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 258mm x 179mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9780521517003
• ISBN-10: 0521517001
• Artikelnr.: 29984448

Autorenporträt

Peter Mészáros is Eberly Chair of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University, where he is also Director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics. His main research interests are high energy astrophysics and cosmology. He has been a co-recipient of the Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society and the First Prize of the Gravity Research Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The nuts and bolts of the Universe
3. Cosmology
4. Cosmic structure formation
5. Active galaxies
6. Stellar cataclysms
7. Gamma ray bursts
8. GeV and TeV gamma rays
9. Gravitational waves
10. Cosmic rays
11. Neutrinos
12. Dark dreams, Higgs and beyond.