The Nonthermal Universe - Conference, Wuerzburg, August 9-12, 2006
Der Lehrstuhl für Astronomie veranstaltet vom 9.-12.08.2006 eine internationale Konferenz in Würzburg
Announcement
This topical workshop aims at confronting results from recent observations of the "Nonthermal Universe" with theoretical models and plasma simulations of the extreme environments of cosmic accelerators.
The multi-messenger approach using particles, neutrinos, and gamma rays puts classical radio and X-ray astronomical studies of nonthermal sources into the wider context of astroparticle physics.
In astroparticle physics, the Universe is considered as a laboratory for fundamental physics. Nonthermal secondary particles and radiation produced by very massive particles might play an important role in the cosmological evolution of the Early Universe, and could provide an indirect signature of dark matter in the present-day Universe. Interactions of the highest energy cosmic rays could also reveal new physics.
The electrodynamically accelerated particles from astrophysical sources represent an irreducible background for searches of new physics phenomena.A deeper understanding of the astrophysical plasma is thus needed, providing sufficient details to fully exploit the scientific content of the precision observations in this growing field of research.
