This book provides examples of multi-wavelength and multimessenger studies within astronomical research. The examples range widely over topics at the forefront of contemporary research and include colliding black holes and neutron stars, the discovery of planetary systems around stars other than our own, and the determination of the Hubble constant which sets the size and age scales of our universe.
The book provides a good overview of the multiple paths through which we gain physical information about the universe and relates some of the most important contemporary results. The key readership for this book is an interested general audience as well as students interested in an overview of multimessenger astronomy.
Key Features:
Provides a broad survey of recent advances in multimessenger astronomy for a scientifically literate general audience as well as an initial survey for students
First book covering all four natural channels of information with historical background
Covers a diverse range of topics including stars, planets, radio pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, accretion-powered objects, and dark matter/dark energy
Author(s): Saeqa Dil Vrtilek
Series: AAS-IOP Astronomy
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 183
City: Bristol
PRELIMS.pdf
Acknowledgement
Author biography
Saeqa Dil Vrtilek
CH001.pdf
Chapter 1 Messengers of Astrophysics
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Electromagnetic Radiation
1.2.1 Covering the Full Spectrum
1.2.2 The Resolution: Seeing the Details
1.3 Cosmic Rays
1.4 Neutrinos
1.5 Gravitational Waves
References
CH002.pdf
Chapter 2 From Dust … The Birth and Death of Stars
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Stellar Birth
2.3 Stellar Death
2.3.1 Planetary Nebulae: The Death of Sun-like Stars
2.3.2 Supernovae: The Deaths of Massive Stars
References
CH003.pdf
Chapter 3 To Dust … The Birth and Death of Planets
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Our Solar System
3.3 Exoplanets
3.4 Finding Earth-like Planets
References
CH004.pdf
Chapter 4 New Characters on the Cosmic Stage
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Radio Pulsars
4.2.1 Binary Pulsars
4.2.2 Gamma-Ray Pulsars
4.3 Gamma-Ray Bursts
4.3.1 Magnetors, Anomalous X-Ray Pulsars
4.3.2 Short and Long Gamma-Ray-Bursts: SGRBs and LGRBs
4.3.3 LGRB Counterparts—X-Rays, Optical, Radio
4.3.4 Host Galaxies
4.3.5 Collapsars, Hypernovae
4.3.6 SGRB Counterparts, Mergers, Kilonova, r-Process Elements
References
CH005.pdf
Chapter 5 From Matter to Energy
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Our Sun: The Most Luminous Object in Our Sky
5.3 X-ray Binaries: The Most Luminous Objects in Our Galaxy
5.3.1 Superluminal Motion
5.4 Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei: The Most Luminous Objects in the Universe
5.4.1 A Neutrino from a Blazer; a Multimessenger Event
5.4.2 The Quasar/Microquasar Analogy
5.5 Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs): Microscopic Particles with Macroscopic Energies
References
CH006.pdf
Chapter 6 From Energy to Matter: Cosmology
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Expanding View of Our Universe
6.3 The Cosmological Principle
6.4 Expansion of the Universe
6.4.1 Hubble’s Law, Hubble Constant, Hubble Time
6.5 The Need for Dark Matter
6.6 The Need for Dark Energy: Acceleration of the Universe
6.7 Standard Model
6.8 The Beginning of the Universe
6.8.1 The Cosmic Microwave Background
6.8.2 The First Stars and Galaxies
6.9 The Physical Limits and Contents of the Universe
6.10 The End of the Universe
6.10.1 Things fall apart…
6.10.2 The Center Cannot Hold…
References
CH007.pdf
Chapter 7 The Ever Expanding Horizon
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Electromagnetic Waves
7.2.1 Radio
7.2.2 Infrared
7.2.3 Optical
7.2.4 X-Ray
7.2.5 Gamma-Ray Instruments
7.2.6 Time Domain Astronomy/Multiwavelength Telescopes
7.3 Cosmic Rays
7.3.1 AugerPrime and AMIGA
7.3.2 Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE)
7.4 Neutrinos
7.4.1 IceCube-Upgrade
7.4.2 IceCube-Gen2
7.5 Gravitational Waves
7.5.1 The “evolved” Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA)
7.5.2 International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA)
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