Introduction to multi-messenger astronomy

Abstract

The new field of multi-messenger astronomy aims at the study of astronomical sources using different types of "messenger" particles: photons, neutrinos, cosmic rays and gravitational waves. These lectures provide an introductory overview of the observational techniques used for each type of astronomical messenger, of different types of astronomical sources observed through different messenger channels and of the main physical processes involved in production of the messenger particles and their propagation through the Universe.

Lectures at ISAPP-Baikal Summer school 2018, "Exploring the Universe through multiple messengers"

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• The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Mission
• X-ray Properties of Black-Hole Binaries
• Masses, Radii, and Equation of State of Neutron Stars
• The Galactic Center Massive Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster
• Explosion Mechanisms of Core-Collapse Supernovae
• The extragalactic optical-infrared background radiations, their time evolution and the cosmic photon-photon opacity
• Theory of Core-Collapse Supernovae
• Cosmological Magnetic Fields: Their Generation, Evolution and Observation
• Chandra X-ray Spectroscopic Imaging of Sgr A* and the Central Parsec of the Galaxy
• Fermi-LAT Observations of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission: Implications for Cosmic Rays and the Interstellar Medium
• First Observation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Suppression
• SINFONI in the Galactic Center: young stars and IR flares in the central light month
• Gamma-ray flares from the Crab Nebula
• Discovery of Powerful Gamma-Ray Flares from the Crab Nebula
• The all-sky distribution of 511 keV electron-positron annihilation emission
• Supernova Neutrino Detection
• The 2HWC HAWC Observatory Gamma Ray Catalog
• A dark jet dominates the power output of the stellar black hole Cygnus X-1
• The 511 keV emission from positron annihilation in the Galaxy
• A new population of very high energy gamma-ray sources in the Milky Way
• Stringent Constraint on Galactic Positron Production
• Observation of Pulsed Gamma-rays Above 25 GeV from the Crab Pulsar with MAGIC
• First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO
• Physical parameters of the high-mass X-ray binary 4U1700-37
• Detection of TeV gamma-ray Emission from the Shell-Type Supernova Remnant RX J0852.0-4622 with H.E.S.S
• Attenuation of VHE gamma rays by the Milky Way interstellar radiation field
• Positron annihilation spectrum from the Galactic Center region observed by SPI/INTEGRAL
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• The first COMPTEL Source Catalogue
• Atmospheric gas dynamics in the Perseus cluster observed with Hitomi
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• The Ultimate Energy Density of Observable Cold Matter
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• A description of sources detected by INTEGRAL during the first 4 years of observations
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• INTEGRAL hard X-ray spectra of the cosmic X-ray background and Galactic ridge emission
• The Bright Quasar 3C 273
• Gamma-ray Pulsar Revolution
• The compact central source in the RX J0852-4622 supernova remnant
• Multi-wavelength Observations of the Binary System PSR B1259-63/LS~2883 around the 2014 Periastron Passage
• A Mosaic of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies with XMM-Newton
• All-flavor search for a diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos with 9 years of ANTARES data
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