High Energy Radiation from Black Holes
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High Energy Radiation from Black Holes

Gamma Rays, Cosmic Rays, and Neutrinos

  1. 568 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

High Energy Radiation from Black Holes

Gamma Rays, Cosmic Rays, and Neutrinos

About this book

Bright gamma-ray flares observed from sources far beyond our Milky Way Galaxy are best explained if enormous amounts of energy are liberated by black holes. The highest- energy particles in nature--the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays--cannot be confined by the Milky Way's magnetic field, and must originate from sources outside our Galaxy. Understanding these energetic radiations requires an extensive theoretical framework involving the radiation physics and strong-field gravity of black holes. In High Energy Radiation from Black Holes, Charles Dermer and Govind Menon present a systematic exposition of black-hole astrophysics and general relativity in order to understand how gamma rays, cosmic rays, and neutrinos are produced by black holes.


Beginning with Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, the authors give a detailed mathematical description of fundamental astrophysical radiation processes, including Compton scattering of electrons and photons, synchrotron radiation of particles in magnetic fields, photohadronic interactions of cosmic rays with photons, gamma-ray attenuation, Fermi acceleration, and the Blandford-Znajek mechanism for energy extraction from rotating black holes. The book provides a basis for graduate students and researchers in the field to interpret the latest results from high-energy observatories, and helps resolve whether energy released by rotating black holes powers the highest-energy radiations in nature. The wide range of detail will make High Energy Radiation from Black Holes a standard reference for black-hole research.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1. Introduction
  7. Chapter 2. Relativistic Kinematics
  8. Chapter 3. Introduction to Curved Spacetime
  9. Chapter 4. Physical Cosmology
  10. Chapter 5. Radiation Physics of Relativistic Flows
  11. Chapter 6. Compton Scattering
  12. Chapter 7. Synchrotron Radiation
  13. Chapter 8. Binary Particle Collision Processes
  14. Chapter 9. Photohadronic Processes
  15. Chapter 10. γγ Pair Production
  16. Chapter 11. Blast-Wave Physics
  17. Chapter 12. Introduction to Fermi Acceleration
  18. Chapter 13. First-Order Fermi Acceleration
  19. Chapter 14. Second-Order Fermi Acceleration
  20. Chapter 15. The Geometry of Spacetime
  21. Chapter 16. Black-Hole Electrodynamics
  22. Chapter 17. High-Energy Radiations from Black Holes
  23. Appendix A: Essential Tensor Calculus
  24. Appendix B: Mathematical Functions
  25. Appendix C: Solutions of the Continuity Equation
  26. Appendix D: Basics of Monte Carlo Calculations
  27. Appendix E: Supplementary Information
  28. Appendix F: Glossary and Acronym List
  29. Bibliography
  30. Index