Cosmic Gamma Rays, Neutrinos, and Related Astrophysics

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Gamma Ray Astronomy - An Overview of the Galactic Diffuse Emission: The Origin and Confinement of Cosmic Rays....Pages 1-20
Photon and Neutrino-Emission from Shockwaves in Active Galactic Nuclei....Pages 21-37
Production of Energetic Gamma-Rays and Neutrinos at Binary Systems....Pages 39-48
Cosmic Gamma-Rays and Cosmic-Ray Neutrinos from Galactic and Solar Dark Matter Annihilation....Pages 49-71
Gamma Rays from Cygnus X-l: New Diagnostics for a Black Hole....Pages 73-84
Gamma-Ray Astronomy and the Holistic Galaxy....Pages 85-119
The Neutrino Signal from SN 1987A....Pages 121-129
On the Spectrum of Neutrinos from SN 1987A....Pages 131-138
A Comment on V e / V µ Ratio in Atmospheric Neutrino Fluxes....Pages 139-140
Fluxes of Muons and Neutrinos Generated by Primary Radiation on the Moon....Pages 141-144
Three-Neutrino Oscillations in the Earth: Resonance Amplification and T-Violation Effects....Pages 145-161
VHE and UHE Gamma Ray Astronomy: History and Problems....Pages 163-182
Ultra High Energy Astronomy....Pages 183-210
On the 100 TeV UHE Gamma-Ray Data from Cygnus X-3 and Hercules X-l in 1986....Pages 211-214
Ultra High Energy Radiation from Hercules X-l; New Physics Above 100 TEV ?....Pages 215-233
UHE Gamma Ray Observations with the KGF Air Shower Array....Pages 235-243
Observation of TeV Gamma-rays from the Crab Nebula....Pages 245-252
Search for Pulsed TeV Emission from PSR0531+21....Pages 253-258
Constraints on the Production Mechanism of TeV γ-Rays in X-Ray Binaries....Pages 259-264
Galactic Gamma Ray Line Spectroscopy — An Observational Overview....Pages 265-288
Gamma-Ray Lines from Nucleosynthesis and from Cosmic-Ray and Solar-Flare Particle Interactions....Pages 289-319
Gamma-Ray Lines from Supernova 1987A....Pages 321-328
Solar Abundances Using Gamma-Ray Line Spectroscopy of a Solar Flare....Pages 329-336
Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 337-379
Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Physical Perspective....Pages 381-400
The Gamma Ray Observatory GRO in Perspective....Pages 401-422
GRANDE: An Experiment to Search for Cosmic Gamma Rays and Cosmic Neutrinos....Pages 423-430
Cosmic Ray Tracking — A New Approach To High Energy γ — Astronomy....Pages 431-442
ASGAT , A High Resolution Gamma Ray Telescope....Pages 443-448
Themistocle:A High Angular Resolution Cerenkov Light Detector....Pages 449-456
Ultrashort Electromagnetic Showers in Single Crystals: Applications in High-Energy γ-Ray Astronomy ?....Pages 457-464
Low-Energy Antiprotons in the Cosmic Rays....Pages 465-473
The Leap Experiment: Another Look at the Cosmic-Ray Low-Energy Antiproton Flux....Pages 475-479
Cosmic Ray Elemental Abundances at High Energy....Pages 481-489
Origin, Propagation and Distributed Acceleration of Cosmic Rays....Pages 491-511
The Origin and Propagation of Cosmic Rays....Pages 513-522
Pulsars as Particle Accelerators — Some Features of the Machine Become Visible....Pages 523-536
Electron Acceleration in Impulsive Solar Flares....Pages 537-547
High Energy Behaviour of Secondary to Primary Ratio....Pages 549-553
The Effect of a Variable Diffusion Coefficient on the Cutoff Spectra of Shock Accelerated Particles....Pages 555-562
The Search for Gravitational Waves....Pages 563-607
Neutron Stars, X-Rays, and Gravitational Waves....Pages 609-616
Possible New X-Ray Sources: Soliton Stars....Pages 617-626
Analysis of the Data Recorded by the Mont Blanc Neutrino Detector and by the Maryland and Rome Gravitational Wave Detectors During SN1987A....Pages 627-657
Back Matter....Pages 659-692