2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Studies on the Quantum Transport Phenomena in and around Dense Astrophysical Objects
Project/Area Number |
21540277
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Particle/Nuclear/Cosmic ray/Astro physics
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Research Institution | Sophia University |
Principal Investigator |
ITOH Naoki 上智大学, 理工学研究科, 教授 (20103939)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NOZAWA Satoshi 城西短期大学, ビジネス総合学科, 教授 (00258914)
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Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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Keywords | 宇宙物理(理論) / 高エネルギー宇宙物理学 |
Research Abstract |
The inverse Compton scattering(the photon-electron elastic scattering) is one of the most fundamental reactions which have a variety of applications to the quantum transport phenomena in astrophysics and cosmology. They are, for example, (1) the inverse Compton scattering of cosmic microwave background photons from electrons in galaxy clusters which makes the distortion of the spectrum(the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect), and (2) the radiation mechanism of high-energy gamma-rays from supernova remnants. In the present research project, we have made theoretical investigations on these two subjects by solving the quantum transport equation of the cosmic microwave background photons and electrons both analytically and numerically.
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Research Products
(19 results)