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Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics
This book highlights a comprehensive coverage of X‐ray and Gamma‐ray astrophysics. The first and the second parts discuss, respectively, X-ray and...
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X-ray Photon Processing Detectors Space, Industrial, and Medical applications
This book provides readers a good overview of some of most recent advances in the field of hybrid pixelated detectors for X-ray imaging. Coverage...
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X-Ray Flashes and X-Ray Rich Gamma Ray Bursts
X-ray flashes are detected in the Wide Field Cameras on BeppoSAX in the energy range 2-25 keV as bright X-ray sources lasting of the order of...
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High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy Instrumentation, Data Analysis, and Science
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton Observatory have been the pioneering satellites for studying the Universe with X-rays and the...
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Advanced X-Ray Radiation Detection: Medical Imaging and Industrial Applications
This book offers readers an overview of some of the most recent advances in the field of technology for X-ray medical imaging. Coverage includes both...
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X-ray Polarimetry-Timing
X-ray polarimetry-timing is the characterization of rapid variability in the X-ray polarization degree and angle. As for the case of spectral-timing,...
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X-Ray Methods
Three types of X-ray method, viz., X-ray absorption, X-ray fluorescence and X-ray diffraction methods are normally available.
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X: X-ray Yourselves
Take a hard look inside-out. Cross-examine your own species, not just what but how you see. Have you got X-ray vision à la Super...
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Storage Ring-Based Inverse Compton X-ray Sources Cavity Design, Beamline Development and X-ray Applications
This thesis presents research on novel laboratory-scale synchrotron X-ray sources based on inverse Compton scattering and applications of their X-ray...
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Nonlinear X-Ray Spectroscopy for Materials Science
X-ray experiments have been used widely in materials science, and conventional spectroscopy has been based on linear responses in light–matter...
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X-Ray Astronomy and Astrophysics
The most compelling nature of X-ray astronomy is its richness and scale. Almost every observable object in the sky either naturally emits X-ray...
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X-Ray Spectroscopy for Chemical State Analysis
This book focuses on X-ray spectroscopy for chemical state analysis covering X-ray physics, spectroscopic characteristics used for functional and...
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X-Ray Techniques
X-ray techniques are non-destructive material analysis methods to provide information about lattice constant, strain, material composition, layer...
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X-ray Cluster Cosmology
Formation of dark matter halos is sensitive to the expansion rate of the Universe and to the growth of structures under gravitational collapse....
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High-Mass X-ray Binaries
Binary systems in which a neutron star or black hole accretes material from a high-mass star are known as high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs). This...
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Low-Mass X-ray Binaries
A large fraction of X-ray sources in our Galaxy are low-mass X-ray binaries, containing a black hole or a neutron star accreting from a...
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High-Mass X-ray Binaries
Binary systems in which a neutron star or black hole accretes material from a high-mass star are known as high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs). This...
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Earth’s Exospheric X-ray Emissions
In this chapter we explore solar wind charge exchange X-ray emission emitted from the Earth’s exosphere, following an interaction between heavy ions...
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Perovskite X-ray Detectors
For several decades, the development of X-ray detectors has been largely dependent on materials such as cesium iodide for scintillation indirect...
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Linear X-Ray Spectroscopy
This chapter starts with the basics of light–matter interactions, followed by explanations of the linear X-ray spectroscopy, such as X-ray absorption...