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CURRENT HIGH-ENERGY EMISSION AROUND BLACK HOLES
Proceedings of the 2nd KIAS Astrophysics Workshop
Korea Institute for Advanced Study 3 - 8 September 2001

edited by Chang-Hwan Lee & Heon-Young Chang (Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea)

Black holes exist in galactic nuclei and in some X-ray binaries found in our own galaxy and the large Magellanic Cloud. This volume focuses on astrophysical high-energy emission processes around black holes, and the development of theoretical frameworks for interesting observational results.


Contents:

  • Black Hole Observations
  • Accretion Disk/Formation of Jets
  • Energy Extraction from Rotating Black Holes
  • Supernova and Gamma Ray Bursts
  • Black Hole Astrophysics


Readership: Graduate students, post-docs and academics in astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology and high energy physics.

356pp Pub. date: May 2002
ISBN 978-981-02-4870-3
981-02-4870-9
US$110 / £82


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