X-Ray Spectroscopy in Astrophysics: Lectures Held at the Astrophysics School X Organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network (EADN) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 22-October 3, 1997 / Edition 1

by Jan van Paradijs, Johan A.M. Bleeker

Overview

This volume contains a comprehensive treatment of X-ray spectroscopy, as applied in astrophysics. It is presented in the form of extensive notes of lectures given by seven distinguished scientists at the Tenth Summer School of the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network. The subjects covered are: basic line and continuum radiation processes in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy; atomic physics of collision- and radiation-dominated plasmas; X-ray spectroscopic observations with ASCA and BeppoSAX; future X-ray spectroscopy missions; X-ray optics, and X-ray spectroscopy instrumentation. The book, which will appeal to both researchers and graduate students, is timely in view of the scheduled launches of the big X-ray observatories AXAF and XMM in 1999.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540655480
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	03/19/1999
Series:	Lecture Notes in Physics , #520
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	532
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Continuum Processes in X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy.- Atomic Physics of Hot Plasmas.- The X-Ray Spectral Properties of Photoionized Plasmas and 189 Transient Plasmas.- X-Ray Spectroscopic Observations with ASCA and BeppoSAX.- Future X-Ray Spectroscopy Missions.-New Developments in X-Ray Optics.- Instrumentation for X-Ray Spectroscopy.