Exploring Future Multi Messenger Galactic Astronomy

Exploring Future Multi-messenger Galactic Astronomy

Multi Messenger Astronomy

""Multi Messenger Astronomy"" explores a revolutionary approach to understanding the universe by combining data from electromagnetic radiation, gravitational waves, neutrinos, and cosmic rays. This interdisciplinary field overcomes limitations of traditional astronomy, which is often hindered by interstellar dust. By studying multiple ""messengers,"" scientists gain a more complete picture of astrophysical events like black hole mergers and neutron star collisions. For instance, gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime, and neutrinos, nearly massless particles, offer unobstructed views of cosmic phenomena. The book guides readers through the properties of each messenger and explores astrophysical sources emitting multiple signals, such as gamma-ray bursts. It highlights how combining data has already led to significant discoveries and promises to address outstanding questions in Science Physics and astrophysics. The approach emphasizes collaborative research and interdisciplinary connections, showcasing the power of integrating particle physics and advanced computing. The book progresses from introducing fundamental properties of each messenger to exploring specific astrophysical sources, culminating in future prospects of new observatories and experimental techniques.

Exploring the Universe: From Near Space to Extra-Galactic

This Festschrift dedicated to the 60th birth anniversary of Prof. Sandip K. Chakrabarti, a well-known Indian astrophysicist, presents a collection of contributions by about fifty scientists who work on diverse topics in contemporary astrophysics and space science including new and low-cost balloon borne experiments, planetary science, astrochemistry and the origin of life, ionospheric research and earthquake predictions, relativistic astrophysics around black holes, and finally, the observational signatures and radiative properties of compact objects. All the authors are well known scholars in their respective subject and are all PhD students of Prof. Sandip K. Chakrabarti. The book demonstrates a two-dimensional evolution of research areas triggered by Sandip Chakrabarti over the past few decades. The first dimension represents the evolution and diversification of Chakrabarti’s own research in which new students were trained. A second dimension arises from the evolution ofthe research topics pursued by Chakrabarti’s fifty odd doctoral students, many of whom have become renowned scientists in their own right, after starting with a certain subject under Chakrabarti and then migrating to completely new subjects with dexterity. The editors have compiled and edited the articles appropriately to some extent to suit the spirit of this Festschrift on the one hand and to keep balance in diverse topics on the other. Thus this volume also provides an overview for whosoever wishes to enter the important subjects of compact objects, astrochemistry, ionospheric science or space exploration in near space. New graduates, PhD scholars, teachers and researchers will benefit from this volume. Moreover it is a record of tremendous success of a school in a range of vast topics.