New Vistas In Astrophysics

Download or read book New Vistas in Astrophysics written by Maurico M. Shapiro and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, marking the 20th Anniversary of the International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics, provides a wide-ranging overview of modern astrophysics - from the infra-red to X-rays and y-rays, from neutrinos to galactic cosmic rays, and from shock wave acceleration to cosmology. The separate topics contain both background information and results in the field. The book also features high energy neutrinos (including the new generation of experiments coming on line), results from X-ray astronomy and from the infra-red, particle acceleration in astrophysical plasmas, results on the composition of cosmic rays (spanning six decades in energy), and cosmology.