Solar, Stellar and Galactic Connections Between Particle Physics and Astrophysics

by Carraminana, Alberto; Guzman, Francisco Siddhartha; Matos, Tonatiuh

• ISBN13: 9781402055744
• ISBN10: 1402055749
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-04
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book collects extended and specialized reviews on topics linking astrophysics and particle physics at a level intermediate between a graduate student and a young researcher. The book includes also three reviews on observational techniques used in forefront astrophysics and short articles on research performed in Latin America. The reviews, updated and written by specialized researchers, describe the state of the art in the related research topics. This book is a valuable complement not only for research but also for lecturers in specialized course of high energy astrophysics, cosmic ray astrophysics and particle physics.

Author Biography

Alberto Carrami+¦ana: Ph.D. in high energy astronomy from the University of Durham. Posdoctoral researcher at the ESTEC center of the European Space Agengy and since 1993 full time researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Astrof+¡sica, +ôptica y Electr+¦nica in Tonantzintla, M+¬xico.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. ix
Extended Topics
Nuclear Astrophysics: Evolution of Stars from Hydrogen Burning to Supernova Explosion	p. 3
Pulsars as Probes of Relativistic Gravity, Nuclear Matter, and Astrophysical Plasmas	p. 43
Theory of Gamma-Ray Burst Sources	p. 77
Understanding Galaxy Formation and Evolution	p. 115
Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays: From GeV to ZeV	p. 165
Astronomical Technical Reviews
Radio Astronomy: The Achievements and the Challenges	p. 199
Gamma-ray Astrophysics - Before Glast	p. 215
Gravitational Wave Detectors: A New Window to the Universe	p. 231
Research Short Contributions
Hybrid Extensive Air Shower Detector Array at the University of Puebla to Study Cosmic Rays	p. 243
Search for Gamma Ray Bursts at Sierra Negra, Mexico	p. 253
Are There Strangelets Trapped by the Geomagnetic Field?	p. 263
Late Time Behavior of Non Spherical Collapse of Scalar Field Dark Matter	p. 271
Inhomogeneous Dark Matter in Non-trivial Interaction with Dark Energy	p. 279
Mini-review on Scalar Field Dark Matter	p. 295
Index	p. 303
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