Cosmic Accelerators: Engines of the Extreme Universe

Multimedia · Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2009

OSTI ID:1014090

Funk, Stefan ^[1]

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1. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Kavli Inst. for Particle Astrophyiscs and Cosmology (KIPAC)

The universe is home to numerous exotic and beautiful phenomena, some of which can generate almost inconceivable amounts of energy. While the night sky appears calm, it is populated by colossal explosions, jets from supermassive black holes, rapidly rotating neutron stars, and shock waves of gas moving at supersonic speeds. These accelerators in the sky boost particles to energies far beyond those we can produce on earth. New types of telescopes, including the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbiting in space, are now discovering a host of new and more powerful accelerators. Please come and see how these observations are revising our picture of the most energetic phenomena in the universe.

• Research Organization: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 1014090
• Resource Relation: Conference: SLAC Public Lecture Series, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, presented on June 23, 2009
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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NIGHT SKY
SHOCK WAVES
SKY
STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CENTER
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