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9789810247447

Rotation- and Accretion-Powered Pulsars

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  • ISBN13:

    9789810247447

  • ISBN10:

    9810247443

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-07-30
  • Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC
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Summary

This book is an introduction to pulsars, a key area in high energy astrophysics with potential for further fundamental discoveries. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on the intimate connection between rotation-powered pulsars and accretion-powered pulsars -- a cornerstone of modern astrophysics. Early texts on pulsars dealt almost exclusively with rotation-powered ones, while later texts on X-ray binaries concentrated almost entirely on accretion-powered pulsars. This is the first book to treat the two kinds of pulsars on the same footing, stressing the connection between their physical properties, and their evolutionary link. It starts with simple, basic concepts, and ends with the latest developments.

Table of Contents

The discovery of pulsarsp. 1
Physics of neutron stars : I. Degenerate starsp. 39
Physics of neutron stars : II. Physics of dense matter-1p. 97
Physics of neutron stars : III. Physics of dense matter-2p. 131
Physics of neutron stars : IV. Mass, radius and structurep. 173
Origin and evolution of neutron starsp. 221
Properties of rotation powered pulsarsp. 307
Superfluidity in neutron stars and glitch diagnosticsp. 377
Properties of accretion powered pulsarsp. 413
Pulsar magnetospheresp. 495
Pulsar emission mechanismsp. 629
Spin evolution of neutron starsp. 649
Neutron star magnetic fieldsp. 675
Strange starsp. 693
Astronomical preliminariesp. 699
Binary dynamicsp. 709
Single star evolutionp. 717
The two-nucleon potentialp. 725
Tables of pulsarsp. 731
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