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Gamma Rays from Cassiopeia A

5.7 "PeV SNRs"

6. Pulsars, Pulsar Winds, Plerions

6.1 Magnetospheric Gamma Rays

6.1.1 Polar cap versus outer gap models

6.1.2 Magnetospheric TeV gamma rays?

6.2 Gamma Rays from Unshocked Pulsar Winds

6.2.1 Characteristics of the KED wind

6.2.2 The ejection rate and the particle spectrum

6.2.3 IC Radiation of the pulsar wind in Crab

6.2.4 Gamma rays from winds of PSR B1706-44 and Vela?

6.2.5 IC γ-rays from the binary pulsar PSR B1259-63

6.3 Gamma Rays from Pulsar Driven Nebulae

6.3.1 Broad-band nonthermal radiation of the Crab Nebula

6.3.1.1 Synchrotron and IC radiation

6.3.1.2 Second High Energy Synchrotron Component

6.3.1.3 Bremsstrahlung and π0-decay gamma rays?

6.3.1.4 The objectives of future gamma ray studies

6.4 High Energy Gamma Rays from Other Plerions

6.4.1 Time-evolution of electrons

6.4.2 Target photon fields

6.4.3 Effects of B-field, electron energy, and pulsar age

6.4.4 Synchrotron and IC nebulae around PSR B1706-44

7. Gamma Rays Expected from Microquasars

7.1 Do We Expect Gamma Rays from X-Ray Binaries?

7.2 Nonthermal Phenomena in Microquasars

7.3 Modelling of Radio Flares of GRS 1915+105

7.4 Expected Gamma Ray Fluxes

7.5 Searching for Gamma Ray Signals from Microquasars

7.6 The Case of Microblazars

7.7 Ultraluminous Sources as Microblazars?

7.8 Persistent Gamma Ray Emission from Extended Lobes

8. Large Scale Jets of Radio Galaxies and Quasars

8.1 Synchrotron and IC Models of Large Scale AGN Jets

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9. Nonthermal Phenomena in Clusters of Galaxies

10. TeV Blazars and Cosmic Background Radiation

11. High Energy Gamma Rays - Carriers of Unique Cosmological Information

Appendix A Spherically symmetric diffusion from a single source

Appendix B Evolution of relativistic electrons in an expandid magnetised medium

B.1 Kinetic equation

B.2 Time-independent energy losses

B.3 Expanding cloud

Bibliography

Index

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