Multimessenger astronomy /

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"Version: 20170401"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 18).1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1. What powers cosmic emission? -- 2.2. Cosmic messengers -- 3. Current directions -- 3.1. Gravitational wave observations--LIGO -- 3.2. High-energy neutrino observations--IceCube -- 3.3. Connecting the messengers : combined observations and interpretation -- 4. Outlook -- 5. Conclusion.With the recent discovery of gravitational waves and high-energy cosmic neutrinos, we are witnessing the beginning of a new era in multimessenger astronomy. The exploration of the Universe through these new messengers, along with electromagnetic radiation and cosmic rays, gives us new insights into the most extreme energetic cosmic events, environments and particle accelerators. The objects of interest range from galaxies with accreting supermassive black holes in their centre to collapsing stars and coalescing stellar black holes. In this ebook we provide an introduction to the scientific questions surrounding these new messengers and the detectors and observational techniques used to study them, together with an overview of current and future directions in the field.Final-year undergraduates, new PhD students and early-career scientists.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Dr. Imre Bartos received his PhD from Columbia University, USA, where he is currently a research scientist. He studies extreme cosmic explosions related to the formation and evolution of black holes. He is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which recently announced the discovery of gravitational waves, and an associate member of the IceCube Collaboration. He also works on the biological applications of optics to fight malaria in sub-Saharan Africa and to better understand neurological diseases. Dr. Bartos has been recognized as one of the top 30 under 30 Rising Stars of Science by Forbes magazine in 2012, and was part of a Grand Challenges Explorations Team supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He was the recipient of the Allan M Sachs Teaching Award, and was a finalist for Columbia's Presidential Teaching Award. As a member of LIGO, he was the co-recipient of the 2016 Special Breakthrough Prize and the 2016 Gruber Prize. Dr. Marek Kowalski's involvement in neutrino astronomy goes back to his graduate school days at Germany's Humboldt University, where he worked on IceCube's predecessor project, AMANDA. After a postdoc at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US, where he worked for a few years in supernova cosmology, he returned to Humboldt University to lead an Emmy Noether young investigator group. He became a full professor in experimental astroparticle physics at the University of Bonn in 2009, only to return to Berlin in 2014 through a joint appointment at Humboldt University and DESY. His current research interests include finding the sources of IceCube's cosmic neutrinos through multimessenger observations, R&D for the planed extension of IceCube and preparing for a new optical survey, the Zwicky Transient Facility.Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2017).

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1 online resource (viii, 18 pages) :color illustrations.

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English

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9780750313698

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Astrophysics.
SCIENCE / Astronomy.
Popular astronomy and space.

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Imre Bartos, Marek Kowalski.

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