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| adam_text | COSMIC GAMMA-RAY SOURCES EDITED BY K.S. CHENG UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG AND
GUSTAVO E. ROMERO INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE RADIOASTRONOMIA - CONICET,
VILLA ELISA, ARGENTINA KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON /
LONDON CONTENTS PREFACE V CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1 K.S. CHENG, GUSTAVO
E. ROMERO 1 THE EARLY YEARS OF GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY 2 2 THE AGE OF THE
SPARK CHAMBERS 4 3 THE COMPTON GAMMA-RAY OBSERVATORY 6 4 GAMMA-RAY LINE
ASTRONOMY 10 5 THE DEVELOPMENT OF GROUND-BASED HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA-RAY AS-
TRONOMY 12 6 COSMIC GAMMA-RAY SOURCES 14 7 SUGGESTED READING 15 CHAPTER
2 FUNDAMENTALS OF GAMMA-RAY ASTROPHYSICS 21 GUSTAVO E. ROMERO, K.S.
CHENG 1 BASIC CONCEPTS 22 2 GAMMA-RAY PRODUCTION: THERMAL MECHANISMS 24
3 NON-THERMAL GAMMA-RAY PRODUCTION: PARTICLE-FIELD INTERACTIONS 25 3.1
SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 25 3.2 CURVATURE RADIATION 26 3.3 INVERSE
COMPTON (IC) INTERACTIONS 27 3.4 PHOTOMESON PRODUCTION 29 4 NON-THERMAL
GAMMA-RAY PRODUCTION: PARTICLE-MATTER INTERAC- TIONS 31 4.1 RELATIVISTIC
BREMSSTRAHLUNG 31 4.2 HADRONIC GAMMA-RAY EMISSION 32 4.2.1 7 T -DECAYS
FROM PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS 32 4.2.2 7 T -DECAYS FROM
PROTON-ANTIPROTON ANNIHILATION 36 4.3 ELECTRON-POSITRON ANNIHILATION 36
5 GAMMA-RAY LINE PRODUCTION 37 5.1 NUCLEAR TRANSITIONS 37 5.2 FISSION 38
6 GAMMA-RAY ABSORPTION PROCESSES 38 6.1 PAIR-CREATION IN A COULOMB FIELD
39 6.2 PHOTON-PHOTON PAIR CREATION 39 6.3 MAGNETIC PHOTON ABSORPTION 41
6.4 DIRECT COMPTON SCATTERING 42 7 DOPPLER AND GRAVITATIONAL SHIFTS OF
GAMMA RAYS 43 8 RELATED PHYSICAL PROCESSES 43 VII VIII COSMIC GAMMA-RAY
SOURCES 8.1 ELECTROMAGNETIC CASCADES 43 8.2 HADRONIC CASCADES 44 8.3
DIFFUSION OF RELATIVISTIC PARTICLES FROM THE SOURCE 44 CHAPTER 3
GALACTIC GAMMA-RAY SOURCES 47 ISABELLE A. GRENIER 1 YOUNG SOURCES IN
STAR-FORMING REGIONS 49 1.1 MASSIVE STARS, OB ASSOCIATIONS, AND SNOBS 49
1.2 SUPERNOVA REMNANTS 51 1.3 PULSARS AND THEIR WIND NEBULAE 52 2
VARIABLE SOURCES IN THE INNER SPIRAL ARMS 57 2.1 FAINT SOURCES IN THE
GOULD BELT 59 3 VARIABLE SOURCES IN THE HALO 63 3.1 PERSPECTIVE 65
CHAPTER 4 EXTRAGALACTIC GAMMA-RAY SOURCES 69 D.F. TORRES 1 LOW-, MID-,
AND HIGH-LATITUDE SOURCES 69 2 THE CASE FOR AGNS 71 2.1 DEFINITIONS 71
2.2 GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM BLAZARS 71 2.3 MODELS FOR 7-RAY EMISSION
FROM BLAZARS 73 3 EGRET OBSERVATIONS OF AGNS 78 3.1 COMPARISON OF
PROPERTIES OF AGNS AND UNIDENTIFIED EGRET SOURCES AT HIGH LATITUDES 79
3.2 THE MULTIWAVELENGTH APPROACH FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF EGRET BLAZARS
80 3.3 ARE ALL UNIDENTIFIED HIGH-LATITUDE 7-RAY SOURCES AGNS? 84 4
MICROLENSING OF 7-RAY BLAZARS 86 5 ALTERNATIVE ORIGINS OF HIGH-LATITUDE
7-RAY SOURCES 89 5.1 GALAXY CLUSTERS 89 5.2 NORMAL GALAXIES 90 5.3
STARBURST GALAXIES 93 5.4 RADIO GALAXIES . 95 5.5 COLD MOLECULAR CLOUDS
IN THE GALACTIC HALO ! ;97 6 EGRET DETECTIONS AND COSMIC RAYS 98 7
CONCLUDING REMARKS 98 8 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 99 CHAPTER 5 NON-THERMAL
EMISSION FROM EARLY-TYPE BINARIES 105 G. RAUW 1 SOME BASIC
CONSIDERATIONS 107 1.1 WIND INTERACTIONS IN EARLY-TYPE BINARIES 107 1.2
RELATIVISTIC PARTICLES IN STELLAR WINDS 108 1.2.1 THE ACCELERATION OF
RELATIVISTIC PARTICLES 109 1.2.2 MAGNETIC FIELDS 110 2 NON-THERMAL RADIO
EMISSION FROM EARLY-TYPE STARS 111 3 INVERSE COMPTON SCATTERING 115 3.1
NON THERMAL X-RAY EMISSION FROM EARLY-TYPE STARS? 117 3.2 A POSSIBLE
CONNECTION WITH UNIDENTIFIED 7-RAY SOURCES? 119 3.3 VARIABILITY 121 4
OTHER 7-RAY EMISSION MECHANISMS 122 5 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE
PERSPECTIVES 122 CONTENTS IX CHAPTER 6 GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM SUPERNOVA
REMNANTS 127 GUSTAVO E. ROMERO 1 INTRODUCTION 127 2 STRUCTURE AND
EVOLUTION OF SNRS 128 3 PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN SUPERNOVA REMNANTS
132 4 GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM SUPERNOVA REMNANTS 134 5 SUPERNOVA
REMNANTS AND UNIDENTIFIED GAMMA-RAY SOURCES 141 6 THE FUTURE OF
HIGH-ENERGY STUDIES OF SUPERNOVA REMNANTS 144 CHAPTER 7 GAMMA RAY
PULSARS 149 D.J. THOMPSON 1 GAMMA-RAY PULSAR MULTIWAVELENGTH LIGHT
CURVES 150 2 GAMMA-RAY PULSAR MULTIWAVELENGTH ENERGY SPECTRA 153 3 OTHER
CANDIDATE ISOLATED NEUTRON STARS 156 4 GAMMA-RAY PULSARS COMPARED TO THE
GENERAL PULSAR POPULATION 157 5 PULSARS AT THE HIGHEST ENERGIES 157 6
FUTURE PULSAR OBSERVATIONS AT HIGH ENERGIES 162 7 SUMMARY 166 CHAPTER 8
THEORIES OF GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM PULSARS 169 K.S. CHENG 1 BASIC
PROPERTIES OF PULSARS 170 2 GAMMA-RAY OBSERVATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH
PULSARS 173 2.1 GAMMA-RAY PULSARS 173 2.2 GAMMA-RAY EMISSION ASSOCIATED
WITH PULSAR WIND 174 2.3 UNIDENTIFIED GAMMA-RAY SOURCES DETECTED BY
EGRET 175 3 THEORIES OF GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM REGIONS WITHIN THE LIGHT
CYLINDER 176 3.1 OUTER-GAP MODELS 179 3.2 EMISSION MORPHOLOGIES AND
LIGHT CURVES 181 3.3 PHASE-RESOLVED SPECTRA OF THE CRAB PULSAR 182 3.4
GAMMA-RAY EFFICIENCY 185 3.5 GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM MAGNETARS 189 4
GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM REGIONS BEYOND THE LIGHT CYLINDER 192 4.1
HIGH-ENERGY EMISSION FROM PULSAR-WIND NEBULAE 192 4.2 GAMMA-RAY EMISSION
FROM INTERACTION BETWEEN PULSAR WIND AND COMPANION STELLAR WIND 193 5
MATURE GAMMA-RAY PULSARS AND UNIDENTIFIED GAMMA-RAY SOURCES IN THE
GALAXY AND IN THE GOULD BELT 195 6 DISCUSSION 198 CHAPTER 9 HIGH ENERGY
EMISSION FROM MICROQUASARS 205 R. FENDER, T. MACCARONE 1 INTRODUCTION:
WHAT IS A MICROQUASAR? 205 2 X-RAY EMISSION FROM JETS? 209 2.1 X-RAYS
FROM STEADY JETS? 209 2.2 X-RAYS FROM TRANSIENT RELATIVISTIC JETS? 210 3
HIGH-ENERGY 7-RAY EMISSION 210 3.1 OBSERVATIONS 213 3.1.1 CYGNUS X-3 213
3.1.2 LS 5039 214 3.1.3 LS I +61 303 214 3.1.4 UNIDENTIFIED EGRET
SOURCES IN THE GALACTIC PLANE 214 4 PREDICTIONS 214 X COSMIC GAMMA-RAY
SOURCES 5 SYNCHROTRON SELF-COMPTONIZATION MODELS 215 6 EXTERNAL
COMPTONIZATION MODELS 215 7 HADRONIC JET MODELS 217 8 GAMMA-RAY LINES
217 9 WHY ARE THERE SO FEW SOURCES, AND HOW DO WE FIND MORE? 219 9.1
LOWER RADIO LUMINOSITIES? 219 9.2 RAPID VARIABILITY? 220 9.3 BEAMING
REQUIREMENTS? 220 9.4 MAGNETIC FIELD DIFFERENCES? 220 9.5 POORER
OBSERVATIONAL COVERAGE? 221 10 CONCLUSIONS 221 CHAPTER 10 GAMMA-RAY
BURSTS 225 T. LU, Y.F. HUANG, Z.G. DAI, D.M. WEI 1 THE STANDARD FIREBALL
SHOCK MODEL 230 1.1 STELLAR LEVEL EVENT 230 1.2 FIREBALL 231 1.3
COMPACTNESS PROBLEM 232 1.4 ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC EXPANSION 233 1.5
EXTERNAL SHOCK 233 1.6 RADIATION 235 1.7 SPECTRA OF AFTERGLOWS 236 1.8
EXTERNAL-INTERNAL SHOCK MODEL 237 2 POST-STANDARD EFFECTS 238 2.1
NON-RELATIVISTIC LIMIT 238 2.2 COLLIMATION 240 2.3 ADDITIONAL EMISSION
MECHANISM 244 2.4 X-RAY FLASH 245 2.5 ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS 246 2.6
ENERGY INJECTION 248 3 FURTHER TOPICS 249 3.1 GRB-SUPERNOVA CONNECTION
249 3.2 ORIGIN OF GRBS 250 3.3 POLARIZATION ,251 3.4 ULTRAHIGH ENERGY
COSMIC RAYS AND HIGH ENERGY NEUTRINOS 252 3.5 GRBS AS A PROBE OF
COSMOLOGY 253 CHAPTER 11 CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES AT HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAYS
261 OLAF REIMER 1 GAMMA-RAY IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUAL GALAXY CLUSTERS
266 2 SPATIAL-STATISTICAL CORRELATION STUDIES 267 3 CONTRIBUTION OF
UNRESOLVED GALAXY CLUSTERS TO THE EGDB 271 CHAPTER 12 DIFFUSE GAMMA RAYS
279 IGOR V. MOSKALENKO, ANDREW W. STRONG, OLAF REIMER 1 GAMMA RAYS AND
COSMIC RAYS CONNECTION 281 2 COSMIC RAYS 284 3 GALACTIC STRUCTURE 286
3.1 INTERSTELLAR GAS 287 3.2 INTERSTELLAR RADIATION FIELD 289 3.3
MAGNETIC FIELD AND SYNCHROTRON EMISSION 290 * 4 DIFFUSE GALACTIC
GAMMA-RAY EMISSION 292 4.1 ANALYSIS OF COSMIC RAY SPECTRAL FLUCTUATIONS
297 4.2 LOCAL CLOUDS 301 CONTENTS XI 5 EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION
302 6 FAINT SOURCES 303 7 TRACERS OF EXOTIC PHYSICS ? 305 8 BROADER
PICTURE AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVE 306 CHAPTER 13 MULTIFREQUENCY STRATEGIES
FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF GAMMA-RAY SOURCES 311 RESHMI MUKHERJEE, JULES
HALPERN 1 INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 311 1.1 EGRET SOURCE
SENSITIVITY 313 1.2 SOURCE DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE UNIDENTIFIED SOURCES 314
1.3 COUNTERPART SEARCHES - CHALLENGES IN THE IDENTIFICATION PROCESS 315
1.4 THE MULTIWAVELENGTH APPROACH 317 2 BLAZARS AND EGRET UNIDENTIFIED
SOURCES 318 2.1 A BLAZAR COUNTERPART FOR 3EG J2016+3657 318 2.2 3EG
J2027+3429: ANOTHER BLAZAR BEHIND THE GALACTIC PLANE? 319 2.3 3EG
J2006-2321: A BLAZAR WITH A WEAK RADIO FLUX 321 2.4 BLAZARS IN THE
NORTHERN SKY 322 2.5 BLAZARS IN THE SOUTHERN SKY 324 3 EGRET SOURCES AND
RADIO GALAXIES 324 3.1 3EG J1621+8203: THE RADIO GALAXY NGC 6251? 325
3.2 3EG J1735-1500: ANOTHER NEW RADIO GALAXY 326 4 RADIO QUIET ISOLATED
NEUTRON STARS 326 4.1 THE CASE OF 3EG J1835+5918 326 4.2 OTHER NEUTRON
STAR CANDIDATES 329 5 YOUNG PULSAR CANDIDATES 331 5.1 3EG J2021+3716:
THE YOUNG RADIO PULSAR PSR J2021+3651 331 5.2 THE CASE OF 3EG J2227+6122
332 6 OTHER SOURCE CLASSES 335 7 STUDIES OF EGRET UNIDENTIFIED SOURCES
AT TEV ENERGIES 337 7.1 SUMMARY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 340 CHAPTER 14
FUTURE GROUND-BASED TEV GAMMA-RAY TELESCOPES 345 T.C. WEEKES 1 DETECTION
TECHNIQUE 346 2 OBSERVATIONAL STATUS 347 2.1 EXISTING TELESCOPES 350 3
THE NEXT GENERATION OF IMAGING TELESCOPES 351 3.1 SINGLE TELESCOPES S
351 3.2 ARRAYS 352 4 FUTURE PROSPECTS 357 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 358 CHAPTER
15 GLAST: UNDERSTANDING THE HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY SKY 361 JULIE E.
MCENERY, IGOR V. MOSKALENKO, JONATHAN F. ORMES 1 INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION
363 1.1 HARDWARE 363 1.2 INSTRUMENT CAPABILITIES 366 2 PROSPECTS: KNOWN
AND POTENTIAL 7-RAY SOURCES 370 2.1 GALACTIC DIFFUSE 7-RAY EMISSION
371 2.2 PULSARS AND PLERIONS 373 XII COSMIC GAMMA-RAY SOURCES 2.3
BLAZARS AND RADIO GALAXIES 377 2.4 GAMMA-RAY BURSTS 381 2.5
EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION 383 2.6 SUPERNOVA REMNANTS AND COSMIC-RAY
ACCELERATION SITES 386 2.7 GALAXY CLUSTERS 389 3 CONCLUSIONS 390
AUTHOR INDEX 397 OBJECT INDEX 399
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COSMIC GAMMA-RAY SOURCES EDITED BY K.S. CHENG UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG AND
GUSTAVO E. ROMERO INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE RADIOASTRONOMIA - CONICET,
VILLA ELISA, ARGENTINA KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON /
LONDON CONTENTS PREFACE V CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1 K.S. CHENG, GUSTAVO
E. ROMERO 1 THE EARLY YEARS OF GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY 2 2 THE AGE OF THE
SPARK CHAMBERS 4 3 THE COMPTON GAMMA-RAY OBSERVATORY 6 4 GAMMA-RAY LINE
ASTRONOMY 10 5 THE DEVELOPMENT OF GROUND-BASED HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA-RAY AS-
TRONOMY 12 6 COSMIC GAMMA-RAY SOURCES 14 7 SUGGESTED READING 15 CHAPTER
2 FUNDAMENTALS OF GAMMA-RAY ASTROPHYSICS 21 GUSTAVO E. ROMERO, K.S.
CHENG 1 BASIC CONCEPTS 22 2 GAMMA-RAY PRODUCTION: THERMAL MECHANISMS 24
3 NON-THERMAL GAMMA-RAY PRODUCTION: PARTICLE-FIELD INTERACTIONS 25 3.1
SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 25 3.2 CURVATURE RADIATION \ 26 3.3 INVERSE
COMPTON (IC) INTERACTIONS 27 3.4 PHOTOMESON PRODUCTION 29 4 NON-THERMAL
GAMMA-RAY PRODUCTION: PARTICLE-MATTER INTERAC- TIONS 31 4.1 RELATIVISTIC
BREMSSTRAHLUNG 31 4.2 HADRONIC GAMMA-RAY EMISSION 32 4.2.1 7 T -DECAYS
FROM PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS 32 4.2.2 7 T -DECAYS FROM
PROTON-ANTIPROTON ANNIHILATION 36 4.3 ELECTRON-POSITRON ANNIHILATION 36
5 GAMMA-RAY LINE PRODUCTION 37 5.1 NUCLEAR TRANSITIONS 37 5.2 FISSION 38
6 GAMMA-RAY ABSORPTION PROCESSES 38 6.1 PAIR-CREATION IN A COULOMB FIELD
39 6.2 PHOTON-PHOTON PAIR CREATION 39 6.3 MAGNETIC PHOTON ABSORPTION 41
6.4 DIRECT COMPTON SCATTERING 42 7 DOPPLER AND GRAVITATIONAL SHIFTS OF
GAMMA RAYS 43 8 RELATED PHYSICAL PROCESSES 43 VII VIII COSMIC GAMMA-RAY
SOURCES 8.1 ELECTROMAGNETIC CASCADES 43 8.2 HADRONIC CASCADES 44 8.3
DIFFUSION OF RELATIVISTIC PARTICLES FROM THE SOURCE 44 CHAPTER 3
GALACTIC GAMMA-RAY SOURCES 47 ISABELLE A. GRENIER 1 YOUNG SOURCES IN
STAR-FORMING REGIONS 49 1.1 MASSIVE STARS, OB ASSOCIATIONS, AND SNOBS 49
1.2 SUPERNOVA REMNANTS 51 1.3 PULSARS AND THEIR WIND NEBULAE 52 2
VARIABLE SOURCES IN THE INNER SPIRAL ARMS 57 2.1 FAINT SOURCES IN THE
GOULD BELT 59 3 VARIABLE SOURCES IN THE HALO 63 3.1 PERSPECTIVE 65
CHAPTER 4 EXTRAGALACTIC GAMMA-RAY SOURCES 69 D.F. TORRES 1 LOW-, MID-,
AND HIGH-LATITUDE SOURCES 69 2 THE CASE FOR AGNS 71 2.1 DEFINITIONS 71
2.2 GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM BLAZARS 71 2.3 MODELS FOR 7-RAY EMISSION
FROM BLAZARS 73 3 EGRET OBSERVATIONS OF AGNS 78 3.1 COMPARISON OF
PROPERTIES OF AGNS AND UNIDENTIFIED EGRET SOURCES AT HIGH LATITUDES 79
3.2 THE MULTIWAVELENGTH APPROACH FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF EGRET BLAZARS
80 3.3 ARE ALL UNIDENTIFIED HIGH-LATITUDE 7-RAY SOURCES AGNS? 84 4
MICROLENSING OF 7-RAY BLAZARS 86 5 ALTERNATIVE ORIGINS OF HIGH-LATITUDE
7-RAY SOURCES 89 5.1 GALAXY CLUSTERS 89 5.2 NORMAL GALAXIES 90 5.3
STARBURST GALAXIES 93 5.4 RADIO GALAXIES . 95 5.5 COLD MOLECULAR CLOUDS
IN THE GALACTIC HALO ! ;97 6 EGRET DETECTIONS AND COSMIC RAYS 98 7
CONCLUDING REMARKS 98 8 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 99 CHAPTER 5 NON-THERMAL
EMISSION FROM EARLY-TYPE BINARIES 105 G. RAUW 1 SOME BASIC
CONSIDERATIONS 107 1.1 WIND INTERACTIONS IN EARLY-TYPE BINARIES 107 1.2
RELATIVISTIC PARTICLES IN STELLAR WINDS 108 1.2.1 THE ACCELERATION OF
RELATIVISTIC PARTICLES 109 1.2.2 MAGNETIC FIELDS 110 2 NON-THERMAL RADIO
EMISSION FROM EARLY-TYPE STARS 111 3 INVERSE COMPTON SCATTERING 115 3.1
NON THERMAL X-RAY EMISSION FROM EARLY-TYPE STARS? 117 3.2 A POSSIBLE
CONNECTION WITH UNIDENTIFIED 7-RAY SOURCES? 119 3.3 VARIABILITY 121 4
OTHER 7-RAY EMISSION MECHANISMS 122 5 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE
PERSPECTIVES 122 CONTENTS IX CHAPTER 6 GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM SUPERNOVA
REMNANTS 127 GUSTAVO E. ROMERO 1 INTRODUCTION 127 2 STRUCTURE AND
EVOLUTION OF SNRS " 128 3 PARTICLE ACCELERATION IN SUPERNOVA REMNANTS
132 4 GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM SUPERNOVA REMNANTS 134 5 SUPERNOVA
REMNANTS AND UNIDENTIFIED GAMMA-RAY SOURCES 141 6 THE FUTURE OF
HIGH-ENERGY STUDIES OF SUPERNOVA REMNANTS 144 CHAPTER 7 GAMMA RAY
PULSARS 149 D.J. THOMPSON 1 GAMMA-RAY PULSAR MULTIWAVELENGTH LIGHT
CURVES 150 2 GAMMA-RAY PULSAR MULTIWAVELENGTH ENERGY SPECTRA 153 3 OTHER
CANDIDATE ISOLATED NEUTRON STARS 156 4 GAMMA-RAY PULSARS COMPARED TO THE
GENERAL PULSAR POPULATION 157 5 PULSARS AT THE HIGHEST ENERGIES 157 6
FUTURE PULSAR OBSERVATIONS AT HIGH ENERGIES 162 7 SUMMARY 166 CHAPTER 8
THEORIES OF GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM PULSARS 169 K.S. CHENG 1 BASIC
PROPERTIES OF PULSARS 170 2 GAMMA-RAY OBSERVATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH
PULSARS 173 2.1 GAMMA-RAY PULSARS 173 2.2 GAMMA-RAY EMISSION ASSOCIATED
WITH PULSAR WIND 174 2.3 UNIDENTIFIED GAMMA-RAY SOURCES DETECTED BY
EGRET 175 3 THEORIES OF GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM REGIONS WITHIN THE LIGHT
CYLINDER 176 3.1 OUTER-GAP MODELS 179 3.2 EMISSION MORPHOLOGIES AND
LIGHT CURVES 181 3.3 PHASE-RESOLVED SPECTRA OF THE CRAB PULSAR 182 3.4
GAMMA-RAY EFFICIENCY 185 3.5 GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM MAGNETARS 189 4
GAMMA-RAY EMISSION FROM REGIONS BEYOND THE LIGHT CYLINDER 192 4.1
HIGH-ENERGY EMISSION FROM PULSAR-WIND NEBULAE 192 4.2 GAMMA-RAY EMISSION
FROM INTERACTION BETWEEN PULSAR WIND AND COMPANION STELLAR WIND 193 5
MATURE GAMMA-RAY PULSARS AND UNIDENTIFIED GAMMA-RAY SOURCES IN THE
GALAXY AND IN THE GOULD BELT 195 6 DISCUSSION 198 CHAPTER 9 HIGH ENERGY
EMISSION FROM MICROQUASARS 205 R. FENDER, T. MACCARONE 1 INTRODUCTION:
WHAT IS A MICROQUASAR? 205 2 X-RAY EMISSION FROM JETS? 209 2.1 X-RAYS
FROM STEADY JETS? 209 2.2 X-RAYS FROM TRANSIENT RELATIVISTIC JETS? 210 3
HIGH-ENERGY 7-RAY EMISSION 210 3.1 OBSERVATIONS 213 3.1.1 CYGNUS X-3 213
3.1.2 LS 5039 214 3.1.3 LS I +61 303 214 3.1.4 UNIDENTIFIED EGRET
SOURCES IN THE GALACTIC PLANE 214 4 PREDICTIONS 214 X COSMIC GAMMA-RAY
SOURCES 5 SYNCHROTRON SELF-COMPTONIZATION MODELS 215 6 EXTERNAL
COMPTONIZATION MODELS 215 7 HADRONIC JET MODELS 217 8 GAMMA-RAY LINES
217 9 WHY ARE THERE SO FEW SOURCES, AND HOW DO WE FIND MORE? 219 9.1
LOWER RADIO LUMINOSITIES? 219 9.2 RAPID VARIABILITY? 220 9.3 BEAMING
REQUIREMENTS? 220 9.4 MAGNETIC FIELD DIFFERENCES? 220 9.5 POORER
OBSERVATIONAL COVERAGE? 221 10 CONCLUSIONS 221 CHAPTER 10 GAMMA-RAY
BURSTS 225 T. LU, Y.F. HUANG, Z.G. DAI, D.M. WEI 1 THE STANDARD FIREBALL
SHOCK MODEL 230 1.1 STELLAR LEVEL EVENT 230 1.2 FIREBALL 231 1.3
COMPACTNESS PROBLEM 232 1.4 ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC EXPANSION 233 1.5
EXTERNAL SHOCK 233 1.6 RADIATION 235 1.7 SPECTRA OF AFTERGLOWS 236 1.8
EXTERNAL-INTERNAL SHOCK MODEL 237 2 POST-STANDARD EFFECTS 238 2.1
NON-RELATIVISTIC LIMIT 238 2.2 COLLIMATION 240 2.3 ADDITIONAL EMISSION
MECHANISM 244 2.4 X-RAY FLASH 245 2.5 ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS 246 2.6
ENERGY INJECTION 248 3 FURTHER TOPICS 249 3.1 GRB-SUPERNOVA CONNECTION
249 3.2 ORIGIN OF GRBS 250 3.3 POLARIZATION ,251 3.4 ULTRAHIGH ENERGY
COSMIC RAYS AND HIGH ENERGY NEUTRINOS 252 3.5 GRBS AS A PROBE OF
COSMOLOGY 253 CHAPTER 11 CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES AT HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAYS
261 OLAF REIMER 1 GAMMA-RAY IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUAL GALAXY CLUSTERS
266 2 SPATIAL-STATISTICAL CORRELATION STUDIES 267 3 CONTRIBUTION OF
UNRESOLVED GALAXY CLUSTERS TO THE EGDB 271 CHAPTER 12 DIFFUSE GAMMA RAYS
279 IGOR V. MOSKALENKO, ANDREW W. STRONG, OLAF REIMER 1 GAMMA RAYS AND
COSMIC RAYS CONNECTION 281 2 COSMIC RAYS 284 3 GALACTIC STRUCTURE 286
3.1 INTERSTELLAR GAS 287 3.2 INTERSTELLAR RADIATION FIELD 289 3.3
MAGNETIC FIELD AND SYNCHROTRON EMISSION 290 * 4 DIFFUSE GALACTIC
GAMMA-RAY EMISSION 292 4.1 ANALYSIS OF COSMIC RAY SPECTRAL FLUCTUATIONS
297 4.2 LOCAL CLOUDS 301 CONTENTS XI 5 EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION
302 6 FAINT SOURCES 303 7 TRACERS OF EXOTIC PHYSICS ? 305 8 BROADER
PICTURE AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVE 306 CHAPTER 13 MULTIFREQUENCY STRATEGIES
FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF GAMMA-RAY SOURCES 311 RESHMI MUKHERJEE, JULES
HALPERN 1 INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 311 1.1 EGRET SOURCE
SENSITIVITY 313 1.2 SOURCE DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE UNIDENTIFIED SOURCES 314
1.3 COUNTERPART SEARCHES - CHALLENGES IN THE IDENTIFICATION PROCESS 315
1.4 THE MULTIWAVELENGTH APPROACH 317 2 BLAZARS AND EGRET UNIDENTIFIED
SOURCES 318 2.1 A BLAZAR COUNTERPART FOR 3EG J2016+3657 318 2.2 3EG
J2027+3429: ANOTHER BLAZAR BEHIND THE GALACTIC PLANE? 319 2.3 3EG
J2006-2321: A BLAZAR WITH A WEAK RADIO FLUX 321 2.4 BLAZARS IN THE
NORTHERN SKY 322 2.5 BLAZARS IN THE SOUTHERN SKY 324 3 EGRET SOURCES AND
RADIO GALAXIES 324 3.1 3EG J1621+8203: THE RADIO GALAXY NGC 6251? 325
3.2 3EG J1735-1500: ANOTHER NEW RADIO GALAXY 326 4 RADIO QUIET ISOLATED
NEUTRON STARS 326 4.1 THE CASE OF 3EG J1835+5918 326 4.2 OTHER NEUTRON
STAR CANDIDATES 329 5 YOUNG PULSAR CANDIDATES 331 5.1 3EG J2021+3716:
THE YOUNG RADIO PULSAR PSR J2021+3651 331 5.2 THE CASE OF 3EG J2227+6122
332 6 OTHER SOURCE CLASSES 335 7 STUDIES OF EGRET UNIDENTIFIED SOURCES
AT TEV ENERGIES 337 7.1 SUMMARY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 340 CHAPTER 14
FUTURE GROUND-BASED TEV GAMMA-RAY TELESCOPES 345 T.C. WEEKES 1 DETECTION
TECHNIQUE 346 2 OBSERVATIONAL STATUS 347 2.1 EXISTING TELESCOPES 350 3
THE NEXT GENERATION OF IMAGING TELESCOPES 351 3.1 SINGLE TELESCOPES S
351 3.2 ARRAYS 352 4 FUTURE PROSPECTS 357 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 358 CHAPTER
15 GLAST: UNDERSTANDING THE HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY SKY 361 JULIE E.
MCENERY, IGOR V. MOSKALENKO, JONATHAN F. ORMES 1 INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION
363 1.1 HARDWARE 363 1.2 INSTRUMENT CAPABILITIES 366 2 PROSPECTS: KNOWN
AND POTENTIAL 7-RAY SOURCES ' 370 2.1 GALACTIC DIFFUSE 7-RAY EMISSION
371 2.2 PULSARS AND PLERIONS 373 XII COSMIC GAMMA-RAY SOURCES 2.3
BLAZARS AND RADIO GALAXIES 377 2.4 GAMMA-RAY BURSTS 381 2.5
EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE EMISSION 383 2.6 SUPERNOVA REMNANTS AND COSMIC-RAY
ACCELERATION SITES 386 2.7 GALAXY CLUSTERS ' 389 3 CONCLUSIONS 390
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