Rotation and accretion powered pulsars / Pranab Ghosh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ghosh, P. (Pranab)

Series:

World Scientific series in astronomy and astrophysics ; v. 10.

World Scientific series in astronomy and astrophysics ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pulsars.

Stars.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (793 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2007.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1. The Discovery of Pulsars; 2. Physics of Neutron Stars - I. Degenerate Stars; 3. Physics of Neutron Stars - II. Physics of Dense Matter-1; 4. Physics of Neutron Stars - III. Physics of Dense Matter-2; 5. Physics of Neutron Stars - IV. Mass, Radius and Structure; 6. Origin and Evolution of Neutron Stars; 7. Properties of Rotation Powered Pulsars; 8. Superfluidity in Neutron Stars and Glitch Diagnostics; 9. Properties of Accretion Powered Pulsars; 10. Pulsar Magnetospheres; 11. Pulsar Emission Mechanisms; 12. Spin Evolution of Neutron Stars

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 735-759) and index.

ISBN:

9786611120771

9781281120779

1281120774

9789812708465

9812708464

OCLC:

476099656