Astr 501 | Lecture 23 | Spring 2013
Astronomy 501
Lecture 23, March 8
Spring 2013
Lecture Notes:
pdf file
Inverse Compton Scattering
single electron scattering: power
single electron scattering: spectrum
power-law electron spectra
Awesome Example: Mystery Fermi Transient
Fermi all-sky
movie
and associated
YouTube
the
mystery object
seen by
Fermi
Awesome Example: Gamma-Ray Bursts
energetics
time variability
fluence
distribution
sky
distribution
burst duration
distribution
duration correlation with hardness ("color") scatterplots
here
,
here
afterglow
tabulation
Awesome Example: Fermi Bubbles
large-scale
features
at 1 GeV
foreshadowed by WMAP
haze
, now also seen by
Planck
Lecture Archive
Brian Fields
Last modified: Mon Mar 11 13:44:23 CDT 2013