Author: Pranab GhoshPublisher:
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Category : Gamma ray astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Spectra and Timing of Compact X-ray Binaries
Author: Pranab GhoshPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gamma ray astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Compact Stellar X-ray Sources
Author: Walter LewinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139451774
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 667
Book Description
X-ray astronomy is the prime available window on astrophysical compact objects: black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In this book, prominent experts provide a comprehensive overview of the observations and astrophysics of these objects. This is a valuable reference for graduate students and active researchers.
From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Holes on All Mass Scales
Author: Thomas J. MaccaronePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402040849
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A collection of papers using the relative advantages of studying stellar mass and supermassive black holes. The topics discussed here include the state of the art in black hole observational and theoretical work-variability, spectroscopy, disk-jet connections, and multi-wavelength campaigns on black holes.
Stellar Astrophysics
Author: Roger John TaylerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN: 9780750302005
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Stellar Astrophysics contains a selection of high-quality papers that illustrate the progress made in research into the structure and evolution of stars. Senior undergraduates, graduates, and researchers can now be brought thoroughly up to date in this exciting and ever-developing branch of astronomy.
Gamma-ray Bursts and Compact X-ray Binaries
Author: Neil GehrelsPublisher:
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Category : Gamma ray bursts
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
From X-ray Binaries to Quasars: Black Holes on All Mass Scales
Author: Thomas J. MaccaronePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402040857
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This volume brings together contributions from many of the world's leading authorities on black hole accretion. The papers within represent part of a new movement to make use of the relative advantages of studying stellar mass and supermassive black holes, and to bring together the knowledge gained from the two approaches. The topics discussed include black hole observational and theoretical work-variability, spectroscopy, disk-jet connections, and multi-wavelength campaigns on black holes.
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.
Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics
Author: Cosimo BambiPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811969604
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 5912
Book Description
Rotation And Accretion Powered Pulsars
Author: Pranab GhoshPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814490148
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 793
Book Description
This book is an introduction to pulsars, a key area in high energy astrophysics with continuing potential for fundamental discoveries. Throughout the book runs the unifying thread of the evolutionary link between rotation-powered pulsars and accretion-powered pulsars — a milestone of modern astrophysics. Early textbooks on pulsars dealt almost entirely with rotation-powered ones, while accounts of pulsars in volumes on X-ray binaries focused almost exclusively on accretion-powered ones. This is the first textbook to treat these two kinds of pulsars simultaneously with equal importance, stressing the fact that both are rotating, magnetic neutron stars, operating under different conditions during different parts of their lives. It describes the observational properties of both kinds of pulsars, summarizes our physical understanding of these properties, and pays detailed attention to the physics of superdense matter which neutron stars are composed of, as well as to the superfluidity which is expected to occur in neutron stars. Evolution from rotation-power to accretion-power, and vice versa, are carefully described. The effects of the strong magnetic fields of neutron stars on themselves, their emission properties, and their environments are discussed, as are the origin and evolution of such magnetic fields. Also treated is the superbly accurate verification of Einstein's theory of general relativity through timing studies of binary pulsars, which led to the award of the Nobel Prize to Hulse and Taylor in 1993. On each topic, the book starts with simple, basic physical concepts, and builds up the exposition to the point where the latest and most exciting developments become accessible to the reader.
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