| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 772 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Series |
World Scientific series in astronomy and astrophysics ; v. 10 |
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World Scientific series in astronomy and astrophysics ; v. 10.
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| Contents |
13. Neutron Star Magnetic Fields14. Strange Stars; Appendix A Astronomical Preliminaries; Appendix B Binary Dynamics; Appendix C Single Star Evolution; Appendix D The Two-Nucleon Potential; Appendix E Tables of Pulsars; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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, stressi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 735-759) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pulsars.
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SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
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Pulsars
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789812708465 |
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9812708464 |
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