Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics, 2024

Volume 1: X-ray Experimental Techniques and Missions.- Section I: Optics for X-ray Astrophysics.- Section II: Detectors for X-ray Astrophysics.- Section III: X-ray Missions.- Volume 2: Gamma-ray Experimental Techniques, Observatories, and Missions.- Section IV: Optics and Detectors for Gamma-ray Astrophysics.- Section V: Space-based Gamma-ray Observatories.- Section VI: Ground-based Gamma-ray Observatories.- Volume 3a: Galactic Sources.- Section VII: Solar System Planets.- Section VIII: The Sun, Stars, and Exoplanets.- Section IX: SNae, SNRs, and Diffuse Emission.- Section X: Compact Objects.- Volume 3b: Extra-Galactic Sources.- Section XI: Galaxies.- Section XII: Active Galactic Nuclei in X and Gamma-rays.- Section XIII: Galaxy Clusters.- Section XIV: Transient Events.- Section XV: Miscellanea.- Volume 4: Analysis Techniques in X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics.- Section XVI: Spectral Analysis.- Section XVII: Imaging Analysis.-Section XVIII: Timing Analysis.- Section XIX: Polarimetry.

Cosimo Bambi is currently Xie Xide Junior Chair Professor at the Department of Physics at Fudan University. He received the Laurea degree from Florence University in 2003 and the PhD degree from Ferrara University in 2007. He worked as a postdoctoral research scholar at Wayne State University (2007-2008), at IPMU at The University of Tokyo (2008-2011), and in the group of Gia Dvali at LMU Munich (2011-2012). He joined Fudan University at the end of 2012 as Associate Professor under the Thousand Young Talents Program of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. He was promoted to Full Professor at the end of 2013 and named Xie Xide Junior Chair Professor of Physics in 2016. In 2015, he was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship to collaborate with the group of Kostas Kokkotas at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. Professor Bambi has received a number of awards, including the Magnolia Gold Award in 2022 and the Magnolia Silver Award in 2018 from the Municipality of Shanghai, the International Excellent Young Scientists Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2022, and the Xu Guangqi Prize from the Embassy of Italy in Beijing in 2018.Professor Bambi has worked on a number of topics in the fields of high-energy astrophysics, particle cosmology, and gravity. His main research interests focus on theoretical and observational studies of black holes. He has published about 200 papers on high impact factor refereed journals as first or corresponding author and has over 10,000 citations. He has authored/edited several academic books with Springer: "Introduction to Particle Cosmology: The Standard Model of Cosmology and its Open Problems" (Springer-Verlag Heidelberg Berlin, 2016), "Astrophysics of Black Holes: From Fundamental Aspects to Latest Developments" (Springer-Verlag Heidelberg Berlin, 2016), "Black Holes: A Laboratory for Testing Strong Gravity" (Springer Singapore, 2017), "Introduction to General Relativity" (Spr

Provides comprehensive coverage of X­-ray and Gamma-ray astrophysics Serves as both a book for graduate students & a valuable reference for researchers Includes the latest data analysis techniques