Cosmic Gamma Rays, Neutrinos, and Related Astrophysics, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989
Nato Science Series C: Series, Vol. 270

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Erice, Sicily, Italy, April 20-30, 1988

I. Cosmic Gamma Rays and Cosmic Neutrinos.- Gamma Ray Astronomy — An Overview of the Galactic Diffuse Emission: The Origin and Confinement of Cosmic Rays.- Photon and Neutrino-Emission from Shockwaves in Active Galactic Nuclei.- Production of Energetic Gamma-Rays and Neutrinos at Binary Systems.- Cosmic Gamma-Rays and Cosmic-Ray Neutrinos from Galactic and Solar Dark Matter Annihilation.- Gamma Rays from Cygnus X-1: New Diagnostics for a Black Hole.- Gamma-Ray Astronomy and the Holistic Galaxy.- The Neutrino Signal from SN1987a.- On the Spectrum of Neutrinos from SN1987a.- A Comment on ve/v µ Ratio in Atmospheric Neutrino Fluxes.- Fluxes of Muons and Neutrinos Generated By Primary Radiation in the Moon.- Three-Neutrino Oscillations in the Earth: Resonance Amplification and T-Violation Effects.- VHE and UHE Gamma Ray Astronomy: History and Problems.- Ultra High Energy Astronomy.- On the 100 TeV UHE Gamma-Ray Data from Cygnus X-3 and Hercules X-1 in 1986.- Ultra High Energy Radiation from Hercules X-1: New Physics Above 100 TeV?.- UHE Gamma Ray Observations with the KGF Air Shower Array.- Observation of TeV Gamma-Rays from the Crab Nebula.- Search for Pulsed TeV Emission from PSR0531+21.- Constraints On The Production Mechanism Of TeV Gamma-Rays in X-Ray Binaries.- Galactic Gamma Ray Line Spectroscopy — An Observational Overview.- Gamma-Ray Lines from Nucleosynthesis and from Cosmic-Ray and Solar-Flare Particle Interactions.- Gamma-Ray Lines from Supernova 1987a.- Solar Abundances Using Gamma-Ray Line Spectroscopy of a Solar Flare.- Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts.- Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Physical Perspective.- The Gamma Ray Observatory GRO in Perspective.- Grande: An Experiment to Search for Cosmic Gamma Rays and Cosmic Neutrinos.- Cosmic Ray Tracking — A New Approach ToHigh Energy Gamma-Astronomy.- ASGAT — A High Resolution Gamma Ray Telescope.- Themistocle: A High Angular Resolution Cerenkov Light Detector.- Ultrashort Electromagnetic Showers in Single Crystals: Applications in High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy?.- II. Cosmic Radiation and Related Topics in Astrophysics.- Low-Energy Antiprotons in the Cosmic Rays.- The Leap Experiment: Another Look at the Cosmic-Ray Low-Energy Antiproton Flux.- Cosmic Ray Elemental Abundances at High Energy.- Origin, Propagation and Distributed Acceleration of Cosmic Rays.- The Origin and Propagation of Cosmic Rays.- Pulsars as Particle Accelerators—Some Features of the Machine Become Visible.- Electron Acceleration in Impulsive Solar Flare.- High Energy Behaviour of Secondary to Primary Ratio.- The Effect of a Variable Diffusion Coefficient on the Cutoff Spectra of Shock Accelerated Particles.- The Search for Gravitational Waves.- Neutron Stars, X-Rays, and Gravitational Waves.- Possible New X-Ray Sources: Soliton Stars.- Analysis of the Data Recorded by the Mont Blanc Neutrino Detector and by the Maryland and Rome Gravitational Wave Detectors During SN1987A.- LIST OF PARTICIPANTS.- AUTHOR INDEX.