Timing neutron stars : pulsations, oscillations and explosions / Tomaso M. Belloni, Mariano Méndez, Chengmin Zhang, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belloni, T. (Tomaso)

Méndez, Mariano.

Zhang, Chengmin.

Series:

Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 461.

Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; v. 461

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neutron stars.

Astronomy.

Astrophysics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages).

Contained In:

Springer Nature eBook

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Springer, 2020.

System Details:

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Summary:

Neutron stars, whether isolated or in a binary system, display a varied and complex phenomenology, often accompanied by extreme variability of many time scales, which takes the form of pulsations due to the object rotation, quasi-periodicities associated to accretion of matter, and explosions due to matter accreted on the surface or to starquakes of highly magnetized objects. This book gives an overview of the current observational and theoretical standpoint in the research on the physics under the extreme conditions that neutron stars naturally provide. The six chapters explore three physical regions of a neutron star: the space around it, where accretion and pulsar companions allow testing of general relativity its surface, where millisecond pulsation and X-ray bursts provide clues about general relativistic effects and the equation of state of neutron matter its interior, of course, inaccessible to direct observations, can nevertheless, be probed with all observational parameters related to neutron star variability.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Contents

Contributors

1 Astrophysical Constraints on Dense Matter in Neutron Stars

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Expectations from Nuclear Theory

1.2.1 The Basics: Dense Matter and Neutron Stars

1.2.2 Models of Matter at High Densities

1.2.3 Construction of Neutron Star Models from Microphysics

1.3 Constraints on Mass from Binary Observations

1.3.1 Newtonian Observations of Binaries

1.3.2 Post-Keplerian Measurements of Pulsar Binaries

1.3.3 Dynamically Estimated Neutron Star Masses and Future Prospects

1.4 Constraints on Radius, and Other Mass Constraints

1.4.1 Thermonuclear X-ray Bursts

1.4.2 Fits of Thermal Spectra to Cooling Neutron Stars

1.4.3 Modeling of Waveforms

1.4.4 Maximum Spin Rate

1.4.5 Kilohertz QPOs

1.4.6 Other Methods to Determine the Radius and Future Prospects

1.5 Cooling of Neutron Stars

1.5.1 The URCA Processes

1.5.2 Additional Neutrino Production Channels and Suppression

1.5.3 Photon Luminosity and the Minimal Cooling Model

1.5.4 Observations and Systematic Errors

1.5.5 Current Status and Future Prospects

1.6 Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Binaries

1.7 Summary

References

2 General Relativity Measurements from Pulsars

2.1 Why Radio Pulsars

2.2 The Many Faces of the Radio Pulsar Zoo

2.2.1 Radio Pulsars

2.2.2 Intermittent Pulsars

2.2.3 Rotating RAdio Transients

2.3 Relativistic Binary Pulsars

2.3.1 Basic Evolution

2.3.1.1 Pulsars with a Neutron Star Companion

2.3.1.2 Pulsars with a White Dwarf Companion

2.3.1.3 Additional Reading

2.3.2 The Current Sample

2.4 Pulsar Timing Basics

2.4.1 Timing Procedure: Measurement of the ToAs

2.4.2 Timing Procedure: Modelling the ToAs

2.5 Probing Relativistic Gravity with Pulsars

2.5.1 Tests Using PPN Parameters

2.5.2 Tests Using PK Parameters

2.5.2.1 Double Neutron Star Binaries

2.5.2.2 The Unique Case of the Double Pulsar

2.5.2.3 Constraints on Tensor-Scalar Theories

2.5.3 Future Prospects

3 Magnetars: A Short Review and Some Sparse Considerations

3.1 Historical Overview

3.2 Observational Characteristics

3.2.1 Persistent Emission

3.2.1.1 X-Ray Emission

3.2.1.2 Hard-X-Ray Emission

3.2.1.3 Optical or Infrared Emission

3.2.2 Transient Activity

3.2.2.1 Giant Flares

3.2.2.2 Short Bursts

3.2.2.3 Outbursts

3.2.3 Magnetar Formation

3.2.4 Magnetic Field Evolution and the Neutron Star Bestiary

3.2.5 Low-B Magnetars and High-B Pulsars

3.2.6 Magnetars in Binary Systems

3.3 Final Remarks

4 Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsars

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsar Family

4.2.1 Intermittency

4.3 Observations of the AMXPs

4.3.1 SAX J1808.4-3658

4.3.2 XTE J1751-305

4.3.3 XTE J0929-314

4.3.4 XTE J1807-294

4.3.5 XTE J1814-338

4.3.6 IGR J00291+5934.

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ISBN:

9783662621103

366262110X

OCLC:

1204136715

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