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This book presents the most updated review of our current knowledge of cosmic gamma-ray sources. Besides chapters devoted to each type of known gamma-ray emitting object, it provides a self-contained introduction to gamma-ray astrophysics, including a description of the relevant physical processes, a guide through the basic phenomenology, and the prospects for further advances. The book will be of interest for all active researchers in the field, for scientists interested in understanding the recent progress in gamma-ray astronomy, and for graduate students.
From the contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fundamentals of gamma-ray astrophysics -- 3. Galactic gamma-ray sources -- 4. Extragalactic gamma-ray sources -- 5. Non-thermal emission from early-type binaries -- 6. Gamma-ray emission from supernova remnants -- 7. Gamma-ray pulsars -- 8. Theories of gamma-ray emission from pulsars -- 9. High-energy emission from microquasars -- 10. Gamma-ray bursts -- 11. Clusters of galaxies at high-energy gamma-rays -- 12. Diffuse gamma-rays -- 13. Multifrequency strategies for the identification of gamma-ray sources -- 14. Future ground-based TeV gamma-ray telescopes -- 15. GLAST: Understanding the high-energy gamma-ray sky -- Author Index -- Object Index.
edited by K.S. Cheng, Gustavo E. Romero.
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