The Electromagnetic Spectrum of Neutron Stars

by Baykal, Altan; Yerli, Sinan K.; Inam, Sitki C.; Grebenev, Sergei

• ISBN13: 9781402038600
• ISBN10: 1402038607
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-28
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Neutron stars hold a central place in astrophysics, not only because they are made up of the most extreme states of the condensed matter, but also because they are, along with white dwarfs and black holes, one of the stable configurations that stars reach at the end of stellar evolution. Neutron stars posses the highest rotation rates and strongest magnetic fields among all stars. They radiate prolifically, in high energy electromagnetic radiation and in the radio band.This book is devoted to the selected lectures presented in the 6th NATO-ASI series entitled "The Electromagnetic Spectrum of Neutron Stars" in Marmaris, Turkey, on 7-18 June 2004. This ASI is devoted to the spectral properties of neutron stars. Spectral observations of neutron stars help us to understand the magnetospheric emission processes of isolated radio pulsars and the emission processes of accreting neutron stars. This volume includes spectral information from the neutron stars in broadest sense, namely neutrino and gravitational radiation along with the electromagnetic spectrum. We believe that this volume can serve as graduate level of text including the broad range of properties of neutron stars.

Table of Contents

List of Participants

Preface

Formation of Neutron Stars

Neutron Star Formation

Young Neutron Stars and Their Wind Nebulae

Neutron Star Structure and Magnetic Field

Neutron Star Superfluidity Dynamics and Precession

A Biography of the Magnetic Field of a Neutron Star

Elementary Processes in Strong Magnetic Fields

Drifting subpulses in PSR B0826-34

Temperature Distribution in Magnetized Neutron Star Crusts

Coupling of radial and non-radial oscillations of Neutron stars

Neutrino Astrophysics

High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy

Gravitational wave interactions with magnetized plasmas

The Double-Neutron-Star Inspiral Rate and Expectations for GW Detection

Proto-Neutron Star Neutrino Emission

Cooling and Atmospheres of Neutron Stars

Observations of Cooling Neutron Stars

Optical Studies of Isolated Neutron Stars and Their Environments

Disks Around Radio Pulsars

Radiation from Condensed Surface of Magnetic Neutron Stars

Pulsars

Observations of radio pulsars

Radio Pulsar Statistics

Emission Mechanisms and Broad Band Spectra of Pulsars

Modeling Spectral Features from Isolated Neutron Stars

Binaries, Accretion

Formation and evolution of Neutron Stars in Binary Systems

Accretion Disks

High mass X-ray binaries in LMC

Astrophysics with Lobster Telescopes

The Stability of Magnetized Rotating Plasmas with Strong Toroidal Fields

X-ray Binaries

Accretion Powered X-ray Pulsars

Delayed Iron Lines in GX 1+4

Timing Neutron Stars

Millisecond X-Ray Pulsars and QPOs

Gamma Ray Bursts and Magnetars

The Electromagnetic Spectrum of AXPs

The distribution of kHz QPO frequencies in Sco X-1

Science with current and future X/gamma-ray missions

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory

The INTEGRAL mission

Concluding Remarks

Concluding Remarks

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