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High Energy Astrophysics

 Author: Jjhonatan I. KATZ  Category: Astrofisika  Publisher: THE BENJAMIN  ISBN: 978-0198509697  Download
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This book grew out of a one quete ir ne smeder course I taught.
se. UCLA and set. Washington University, and I have tried to in
the informality of lecture notes. It is meant to be replantney and
repository, rather than complete or definitive. My students were ad-
wanced undergradustes or beginning graduate audents the reader
should be fluent in undergraduate physics, but need know no acton-
any or astrophysics.
The expession high energy astrophysics” means diffement
things to different people the contents therefore meflect my intemets
and the comments my opinions. My purpose is to describe the ingre
dients, methods, and results of modern astrophysical phenomen dogy
and modelling. This is mostly the study of phenomens discont
in the last queter of a contury, and involving compact or callspont
objects. I specifically exclude cosmology, gond relativity, and the
detailed theejes of the interiors of degenerste stars, but review the
classical they of stellar structure, which is the foundation of much
of modern astrophysics.
Most of this book persents a few basic results, peinciples, and
¡llustrations which all interestal scientists should know. I hope these
will be useful for some time. The remainder expands upon their im
plications and applications. Occasionally I try to offer a new point of
view or make a plative angustion, but the bulk of the text, rest
upon firmer ground. In the last chapter I describe the understanding
Prefice
of some observed phenomena as it now mi
I have cited the resech literature only when it is of historical
interest, or when necessary to support a parific assertion. Instead,
I have provided citations to texts and to meet review artides. The
ruder who plans to begin rosesech in this field will need to tum to
the current literamme; y tempt to survey it would soon become
obablete.
writing a book I learned how much they are abstracted from
melive work. It is inevitable that a book on this subject drew on
two excellent recent works, Radiative Processes in Astrophysics, by
Rybicki and Lightman, and Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Nontron
Stars, by Shapiro and Tatkolsky, which I commend to the ruder. I
have been more indirectly inflnmond by two older books, Structure
and Enolation of the Stars, by Schwexschild, and Astrophysical Con-
cepts, by Hurwit, whose scientific style was part of my education. I
ow them a debe also.
This book was largely written when I was a guest of the De-
Dotment of Nudes Physics, The Weismann Institute of Scime,
Rehov, Brael. I think them for their hospitality, Washington Uni-
versity for a grant of sabbatical learn, and the United State
Educational Foundation for a Fulbright Lectureship. I also thank
T. Piran for comments, my alitoes for applying just the right amount.
of perssure, and my wife for a careful ruling of the manuscript.


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