Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Physics
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
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Author: X-ray Binaries
Author: Walter H. G. LewinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521599344
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
X-ray binaries are some of the most varied and perplexing systems known to astronomers. The compact object which accretes mass from its companion star may be a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole, whereas the donor star can be a 'normal' star or a white dwarf. The various combinations differ widely in their behaviour, and this timely volume provides a unique reference of our knowledge to date of all of them.Fifteen specially written chapters by a team of the world's foremost researchers in the field explore all aspects of the X-ray binaries. They cover the X-ray, ultraviolet, optical and radio properties of these violent systems and address key issues such as: how were these systems formed, and what will be their fate; how can we understand X-ray bursts, and how the quasi-periodic oscillations; what is the connection between millisecond radio pulsars and low-mass X-ray binaries; and how does the magnetic field of a neutron star decay?This long awaited review provides graduate students and researchers with the standard reference on X-ray binaries for many years to come.
Highly Evolved Close Binary Stars
Author: Anatoliĭ Mikhaĭlovich CherepashchukPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9789056990121
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Electrical Systems 2
Author: Abdenour SoualhiPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1786306085
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Methods of diagnosis and prognosis play a key role in the reliability and safety of industrial systems. Failure diagnosis requires the use of suitable sensors, which provide signals that are processed to monitor features (health indicators) for defects. These features are required to distinguish between operating states, in order to inform the operator of the severity level, or even the type, of a failure. Prognosis is defined as the estimation of a systems lifespan, including how long remains and how long has passed. It also encompasses the prediction of impending failures. This is a challenge that many researchers are currently trying to address. Electrical Systems, a book in two volumes, informs readers of the theoretical solutions to this problem, and the results obtained in several laboratories in France, Spain and further afield. To this end, many researchers from the scientific community have contributed to this book to share their research results.
Emerging Quantum Technologies
Author: Erwin BrüningPublisher:
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Category : Quantum theory
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Isolated Pulsars
Author: K. A. van RiperPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521434294
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The extreme properties of pulsars demand a broad range of physics. From The Los Alamos Workshop on Isolated Pulsars contributions have been selected to encompass all aspects of pulsar detection and understanding. Recent observational highlights include results from the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, ROSAT and GINGA and the Hubble Space Telescope. Well-illustrated theoretical contributions cover a wide range of topics. This volume forms a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the observation and theory of solitary neutron stars.
Image and Signal Processing
Author: Abderrahim ElmoatazPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3642312543
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Image and Signal Processing, ICISP 2012, held in Agadir, Morocco, in June 2012. The 75 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 submissions. The contributions are grouped into the following topical sections: multi/hyperspectral imaging; image itering and coding; signal processing; biometric; watermarking and texture; segmentation and retieval; image processing; pattern recognition.
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Author: The Evolution of Galactic X-Ray Binaries
Author: J. TruemperPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400945949
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The idea to hold a conference on the Evolution of Close-Binary X-ray sources grew in the summer of 1984. At that time we were hoping that some new results would be harvested in the months to come which would stimulate further work. We were particularly looking towards the Euro pean X-ray Observatory, EXOSAT, for new contributions. How lucky we were; quite unexpected developments took place. Just prior to the conference, quasi-periodic oscillations (now known as QPO) were discovered in three bright low-mass X-ray binaries: GX 5-1, Sco X-1, and Cyg X-2. They played an important role at the meeting. The possibility that QPOs imply a neutron star magnetic dipole field, and a neutron star rotation period in the millisecond range, received a lot of attention. This is not surprising, as it lends support to the idea, suggested earlier, that the 6-msec binary radio pulsar PSR 1953+29 evolved from a stage in which it was a bright low-mass X-ray binary. There was special interest in the possibility of white dwarf collapse into a neutron star. This is a. particularly attractive way to form the bright low-mass X-ray binaries, often referred to as galactic bulge sources. It would allow for the possibility of a very young neutron star in a very old binary system. The relatively high magnetic fields that one could infer from QPO could then be explained.
The Electromagnetic Spectrum of Neutron Stars
Author: Altan BaykalPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402038615
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
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.