X-Ray Spectroscopy in Astrophysics: Lectures Held at the Astrophysics School X Organized by the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network (EADN) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 22 – October 3,1997

Malcolm S. Longair (auth.), Jan van Paradijs, Johan A. M. Bleeker (eds.)3540655484, 9783540655480

This volume contains a comprehensive treatment of X-ray spectroscopy, as applied in astrophysics. It is presented in the form of extensive notes of lectures given by seven distinguished scientists at the Tenth Summer School of the European Astrophysics Doctoral Network. The subjects covered are: basic line and continuum radiation processes in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy; atomic physics of collision- and radiation-dominated plasmas; X-ray spectroscopic observations with ASCA and BeppoSAX; future X-ray spectroscopy missions; X-ray optics, and X-ray spectroscopy instrumentation. The book, which will appeal to both researchers and graduate students, is timely in view of the scheduled launches of the big X-ray observatories AXAF and XMM in 1999.

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Table of contents :
Continuum Processes in X-ray and γ-Ray Astronomy….Pages 1-107
Atomic Physics of Hot Plasmas….Pages 109-187
The X-Ray Spectral Properties of Photoionized Plasmas and Transient Plasmas….Pages 189-268
X-ray Spectroscopic Observations with ASCA and BeppoSAX ….Pages 269-346
Future X-ray Spectroscopy Missions….Pages 347-434
New Developments in X-ray Optics….Pages 435-475
Instrumentation for X-ray Spectroscopy….Pages 477-510