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23.12.2026

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Wiley-VCH

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Englisch

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978-3-527-41431-4

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Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

23.12.2026

Abbildungen

120 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen

Verlag

Wiley-VCH

Seitenzahl

384

Maße (L/B)

24,4/17 cm

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-3-527-41431-4

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  • Produktbild: Radiative Processes in Astrophysics
  • CHAPTER 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF RADIATIVE TRANSFER

    1.1 The Electromagnetic Spectrum; Elementary Properties of Radiation

    1.2 Radiative Flux

    1.3 The Specific Intensity and Its Moments

    1.4 Radiative Transfer

    1.5 Thermal Radiation

    1.6 The Einstein Coefficients

    1.7 Scattering Effects; Random Walks

    1.8 Radiative Diffusion

    PROBLEMS

    CHAPTER 2 BASIC THEORY OF RADIATION FIELDS

    2.1 Review of Maxwell's Equations

    2.2 Plane Electromagnetic Waves

    2.3 The Radiation Spectrum

    2.4 Polarization and Stokes Parameters

    2.5 Electromagnetic Potentials

    2.6 Applicability of Transfer Theory and the Geometrical Optics Limit

    PROBLEMS

    CHAPTER 3 RADIATION FROM MOVING CHARGES

    3.1 Retarded Potentials of Single Moving Charges: The Lienard-Wiechart Potentials

    3.2 The Velocity and Radiation Fields

    3.3 Radiation from Nonrelativistic Systems

    3.4 Thomson Scattering (Electron Scattering)

    3.5 Radiation Reaction

    3.6 Radiation from Harmonically Bound Particles

    PROBLEMS

    CHAPTER 4 RELATIVISTIC COVARIANCE AND KINEMATICS

    4.1 Review of Lorentz Transformations

    4.2 Four-Vectors

    4.3 Tensor Analysis

    4.4 Covariance of Electromagnetic Phenomena

    4.5 A Physical Understanding of Field Transformations

    4.6 Fields of a Uniformly Moving Charge

    4.7 Relativistic Mechanics and the Lorentz Four-Force

    4.8 Emission from Relativistic Particles

    4.9 Invariant Phase Volumes and Specific Intensity

    PROBLEMS

    CHAPTER 5 BREMSSTRAHLUNG

    5.1 Emission from Single-Speed Electrons

    5.2 Thermal Bremsstrahlung Emission

    5.3 Thermal Bremsstrahlung (Free-Free) Absorption

    5.4 Relativistic Bremsstrahlung

    PROBLEMS

    CHAPTER 6 SYNCHROTRON RADIAT

    6.1 Total Emitted Power

    6.2 Spectrum of Synchrotron Radiation: A Qualitative Discussion

    6.3 Spectral Index for Power-Law Electron Distribution

    6.4 Spectrum and Polarization of Synchrotron Radiation: A Detailed Discussion

    6.5 Polarization of Synchrotron Radiation

    6.6 Transition from Cyclotron to Synchrotron Emission

    6.7 Distinction between Received and Emitted Power

    6.8 Synchrotron Self-Absorption

    6.9 The Impossibility of a Synchrotron Maser in Vacuum

    PROBLEMS

    CHAPTER 7 COMPTON SCATTERING

    7.1 Cross Section and Energy Transfer for the Fundamental Process

    7.2 Inverse Compton Power for Single Scattering

    7.3 Inverse Compton Spectra for Single Scattering

    7.4 Energy Transfer for Repeated Scatterings in a Finite, Thermal Medium: The Compton Y Parameter

    7.5 Inverse Compton Spectra and Power for Repeated Scatterings by Relativistic Electrons of Small Optical Depth

    7.6 Repeated Scatterings by Nonrelativistic Electrons: The Kompaneets Equation

    7.7 Spectral Regimes for Repeated Scattering by Nonrelativistic Electrons

    PROBLEMS

    CHAPTER 8 PLASMA EFFECTS

    8.1 Dispersion in Cold, Isotropic Plasma

    8.2 Propagation Along a Magnetic Field; Faraday Rotation

    8.3 Plasma Effects in High-Energy Emission

    PROBLEMS 236

    CHAPTER 9 ATOMIC STRUCTURE

    9.1 A Review of the Schrodinger Equation

    9.2 One Electron in a Central Field

    9.3 Many-Electron Systems

    9.4 Perturbations, Level Splittings, and Term Diagrams

    9.5 Thermal Distribution of Energy Levels and Ionization

    PROBLEMS

    CHAPTER 10 RADIATIVE TRANSITIONS

    10.1 Semi-Classical Theory of Radiative Transitions

    10.2 The Dipole Approximation

    10.3 Einstein Coefficients and Oscillator Strengths

    10.4 Selection Rules

    10.5 Transition Rates

    10.6 Line Broadening Mechanisms

    PROBLEMS

    CHAPTER 11 MOLECULAR STRUCTURE

    11.1 The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation: An Order

    11.2 Electronic Binding of Nuclei

    11.3 Pure Rotation Spectra

    11.4 Rotation-Vibration Spectra

    11.5 Electronic-Rotational-Vibrational Spectra

    PROBLEMS

    SOLUTIONS

    Appendix A: Review of Quantum Mechanics

    Appendix B: Review of Statistical Mechanics