Gamma-Ray Astrophysics: A New Look at the Universe
Abstract
Progress in γ -ray astronomy has been very encouraging in recent years. These observations provide the most direct means of studying the largest transfer of energy occurring in astrophysical processes: the dynamic effects of the energetic charged cosmic-ray particles, element synthesis, and particle acceleration. Gamma-ray astronomical observations also find important application in studies of the development of the planets from the primitive solar nebula and of the nature of high-energy processes in the sun's atmosphere and their relation to the basic problems of solar activity.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- December 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.202.4371.933
- Bibcode:
- 1978Sci...202..933T
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics;
- Gamma Ray Astronomy;
- Technology Assessment;
- Cosmology;
- Energy Spectra;
- Energy Transfer;
- Galactic Radiation;
- Planetary Evolution;
- Solar Physics;
- Astrophysics