Neutrino Astrophysics

Abstract

A review of neutrino astrophysics is presented, including solar and atmospheric neutrinos; neutrino mass and oscillations; the supernova mechanism, supernova neutrino production, and associated nucleosynthesis; cosmological neutrinos and Big Bang nucleosynthesis; neutrino cooling and associated limits on neutrino properties; and high-energy astrophysical neutrinos.

Comments: 42 pages, 15 figures; to appear in Wiley's Encyclopedia of Nuclear Physics. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:0808.0735