High Energy Astrophysics – prof. Marcella Brusa

• For each lecture, few selected resources (papers, slides of seminars, web-pages) will be given to complement the material on the Longair's book. The material is given to the students to trigger their interest in the specific topics and…
• The slides used during the lectures will be made available, at the end of the lecture.
• All the material (slides and additional resources) are made available in the Virtuale space

Argomenti del programma: INTRODUCTION TO HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS Recap on emission mechanisms: blackbody/bremsstrahlung/synchrotron/Compton scattering and Inverse Compton scattering, and some examples in the field of high-energy Astrophysics. Line production. Plasma physics (collisional and ionization equilibrium) History of the high-energy Astronomy. Excursus on the properties of the main X-ray/Gamma-ray satellites of the 'golden age'.