High Time-Resolution Astrophysics

Presents the state-of-the-art instrumentation and techniques of high time-resolution astrophysics over a wide range of wavelengths.

Tariq Shahbaz (Edited by), Jorge Casares Velázquez (Edited by), Teodoro Muñoz Darias (Edited by)

9781107181090, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 2 August 2018

208 pages
25.3 x 17.8 x 1.5 cm, 0.58 kg

'The book is a valuable source of information and current ideas and is to be recommended as a class text.' Elizabeth Griffin, The Observatory

High time-resolution astrophysics (HTRA) involves measuring and studying astronomical phenomena on timescales of seconds to milliseconds. Although many areas of astronomy, such as X-ray astronomy and pulsar observations, have traditionally required high time-resolution studies, HTRA techniques are now being applied to optical, infrared and gamma-ray wavelength regimes, due to the development of high efficiency detectors and larger telescopes that can gather photons at a higher rate. With lectures from eminent scientists aimed at young researchers and postdoctorate students in observational astronomy and astrophysics, this volume gives a practical overview and introduction to the tools and techniques of HTRA. Just as multi-spectral observations of astrophysical phenomena are already yielding new scientific results, many astronomers are optimistic that exploring the time domain will open up an important new frontier in observational astronomy over the next decade.

List of contributors
List of participants
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Radiation processes and models Julien Malzac
2. HTRA instrumentation – I Philip A. Charles
3. HTRA instrumentation – II Vikram. S. Dhillon
4. Black-hole and neutron-star binaries Tomaso M. Belloni
5. Radio observations of pulsars and X-ray binaries Andrea Possenti
6. Gamma-ray sources and analysis Elizabeth C. Ferrara.

Subject Areas: Astrophysics [PHVB], Cosmology & the universe [PGK], Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods [PGG]