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.

Observatories
Plasma
X-ray spectroscopy
astronomy
astrophysics
spectroscopy

• Front Matter
• Continuum Processes in X-ray and γ-Ray Astronomy
• Atomic Physics of Hot Plasmas
• The X-Ray Spectral Properties of Photoionized Plasmas and Transient Plasmas
• X-ray Spectroscopic Observations with ASCA and BeppoSAX
• Future X-ray Spectroscopy Missions
• New Developments in X-ray Optics
• Instrumentation for X-ray Spectroscopy
• Back Matter

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Book Title
X-Ray Spectroscopy in Astrophysics

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

Editors
Jan Paradijs, Johan A. M. Bleeker

Series Title
Lecture Notes in Physics

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/b13594

Hardcover ISBN
978-3-540-65548-0
Published: 17 February 1999

Softcover ISBN
978-3-642-08486-7
Published: 04 December 2010

eBook ISBN
978-3-540-49199-6
Published: 17 July 2003

Series ISSN
0075-8450

Series E-ISSN
1616-6361

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XV, 532

Topics
Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Measurement Science and Instrumentation