1. Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and Department of Astronomy, Peking University, China; 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA; 3. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, and Center for Particle and Gravitational Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
High energy astrophysics is one of the most active branches in the contemporary astrophysics. It studies astrophysical objects that emit X-ray and γ-ray photons, such as accreting super-massive and stellar-size black holes, and various species of neutron stars. With the operations of many space-borne and ground-based observational facilities, high energy astrophysics has enjoyed rapid development in the past decades. It is foreseen that the field will continue to advance rapidly in the coming decade, with possible ground-breaking discoveries of astrophysical sources in the high-energy neutrino and gravitational wave channels. This Special Issue of Frontiers of Physics is dedicated to a systematic survey of the field of high energy astrophysics as it stands in 2013.
. Preface: High Energy Astrophysics[J]. Frontiers of Physics, 2013, 8(6): 605-608.
Bing Zhang, Peter Mésáros. Preface: High Energy Astrophysics. Front. Phys. , 2013, 8(6): 605-608.
