This book provides a theoretical and observational overview of the state of the art of gamma-ray astrophysics, and their impact and connection with the physics of cosmic rays and neutrinos. With the aim of shedding new and fresh light on the problem of the nature of the gamma-ray sources, particularly those yet unidentified, this book summarizes contributions to a workshop that continues with the series initiated by the meeting held at Tonantzintla in October 2000, and Hong-Kong in May 2004. This books will be of interest for all active researchers in the field of high energy astrophysics and astroparticle physics, as well as for graduate students entering into the subject.
Author(s): Josep M. Paredes, Olaf Reimer, Diego F. Torres
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 496
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Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 8
Prologue......Page 9
New INTEGRAL sources and TeV emission......Page 11
Status of identification of VHE γ-ray sources......Page 16
INTEGRAL/XMM views on the MeV source GRO J1411-64......Page 22
Evidence for a new MeV source observed by the COMPTEL experiment aboard CGRO......Page 27
Transient X-ray sources in the field of the unidentified gamma-ray source TeV J2032+4130 in Cygnus......Page 32
Source population synthesis and the Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission......Page 37
Population studies of the unidentified EGRET sources......Page 44
Gamma-ray source stacking analysis at low galactic latitudes......Page 51
Identification of high energy gamma-ray sources and source populations in the era of deep all-sky coverage......Page 56
The blazar sequence: validity and predictions......Page 62
Gamma-ray luminosity function of blazars and the cosmic gamma-ray background: evidence for the luminosity-dependent density evolution......Page 71
Unidentified EGRET sources and the extragalactic gamma-ray background......Page 78
Blazar duty-cycle at γ -ray frequencies: constraints from extragalactic background radiation and prospects for AGILE and GLAST......Page 85
Modeling the emission processes in blazars......Page 91
Internal absorption of gamma-rays in relativistic blobs of active galactic nuclei......Page 101
Observations of AGNs using PACT......Page 106
Fermi acceleration in astrophysical jets......Page 113
High-energy cosmology......Page 120
HESS observations of extragalactic objects......Page 131
FIRST radio counterpart candidates to ULXs: a catalogue......Page 138
Numerical studies on the structure of the cosmic ray electron halo in starburst galaxies......Page 142
Synchrotron emission in the fast cooling regime: which spectra can be explained?......Page 147
Spectral properties of shocked accretion flows—a self-consistent study......Page 152
Particle acceleration at multiple internal relativistic shocks......Page 156
Mechanism of light curve variability in the gamma ray bursts......Page 161
High energy processes in pulsar wind nebulae......Page 166
Nucleonic gamma-ray production in pulsar wind nebulae......Page 175
Associations of very high energy gamma-ray sources discovered by H.E.S.S. with pulsar wind nebulae......Page 182
Demystifying an unidentified EGRET source by VHE gamma-ray observations......Page 188
Multiwavelength observations of the two unidentified EGRET sources 3EG J0616-3310 and 3EG J1249-8330......Page 193
INTEGRAL observations of TeV plerions......Page 198
The Geminga fraction......Page 203
An algorithm for solving the pulsar equation......Page 213
Pulsar simulation tools for GLAST......Page 217
Pulsar sensitivity studies of the GLAST large area telescope......Page 222
Population statistics study of radio and gamma-ray pulsars in the Galactic plane......Page 226
Radio-to-TeV γ -ray emission from PSR B1259–63......Page 233
Modulation of the high energy γ-ray flux from PSR B1259-63/SS2883 due to the orbital variation of the maximum energy of accelerated electrons......Page 240
Gamma-ray binaries......Page 245
Supermassive binary black holes among cosmic gamma-ray sources......Page 249
H.E.S.S. observations of LS 5039......Page 254
Results from MAGIC's first observation cycle on galactic sources......Page 262
INTEGRAL serendipitous detection of the gamma-ray microquasar LS 5039......Page 269
Whipple telescope observations of LS I +61 303: 2004–2006......Page 274
Spectral fit of Cygnus X-1 in high energy—a self-consistent study......Page 279
The search for hot spots associated with the Cygnus X-3 relativistic jet......Page 283
The black-hole candidate XTE J1817-330 as seen by XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL......Page 288
Theoretical overview on high-energy emission in microquasars......Page 293
High-energy gamma-ray emission from the inner jet of LS I +61 303: the hadronic contribution revisited......Page 304
Secondary leptons synchrotron emission from microquasar jets......Page 310
Collective effects of stellar winds and unidentified gamma-ray sources......Page 315
Gamma rays from colliding winds of massive stars......Page 321
Gamma rays from halos around stars and the Sun......Page 328
Gamma rays from molecular clouds......Page 333
3EG J2020+4017, the γ -Cygni source—before GLAST......Page 340
Morphological and spectral studies of the shell-type supernova remnants RX J1713.7–3946 and RX J0852.0–4622 with H.E.S.S.......Page 346
Gamma-ray emission expected from Kepler's SNR......Page 352
New evidence for strong nonthermal effects in Tycho's supernova remnant......Page 356
Hard X-ray emission from the SNR G337.2+0.1......Page 362
A possible explanation of photon emission from supernova remnants by jitter radiation......Page 367
Cosmic neutrinos from the sources of galactic and extragalactic cosmic rays......Page 372
Detection potential to point-like neutrino sources with the NEMO-km[sup(3)] telescope......Page 380
Upper limits on neutrino fluxes from point-like sources with AMANDA-II......Page 386
Potential neutrino signals in a northern hemisphere neutrino telescope from galactic gamma-ray sources......Page 393
Underground water Cherenkov muon detector array with the Tibet air shower array for gamma-ray astronomy in the 100 TeV region......Page 398
Study on the possible detection of Gamma Ray Bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope......Page 403
Determination of the atmospheric neutrino flux from experimental data......Page 408
On origin of ultra high energy cosmic rays......Page 413
Gamma ray signatures of ultra high energy cosmic ray accelerators: electromagnetic cascade versus synchrotron radiation of secondary electrons......Page 424
Search for correlations of GRB and cosmic rays......Page 429
Cosmology and VHE gamma ray astrophysics: connections and perspectives......Page 434
A low density of the extragalactic background light revealed by the H.E.S.S. spectra of the BL Lac objects 1ES 1101-232 and H2356-309......Page 443
Observations of extragalactic sources with the MAGIC telescope......Page 452
Dark matter: the connection with gamma-ray astrophysics......Page 459
The impact of subhalos on the gamma-ray signal from dark matter annihilation......Page 470
GLAST large area telescope multiwavelength planning......Page 476
Unravelling unidentified γ-ray sources with the large millimeter telescope......Page 480
Search for GRB related prompt optical emission and other fast varying objects with "Pi of the Sky" detector......Page 484
GRBs search results with the ARGO-YBJ experiment operated in scaler mode......Page 489
The design of diamond Compton telescope......Page 493
