Compact Galactic X Ray Sources

Author : Walter Lewin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139451774
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compact Stellar X-ray Sources written by Walter Lewin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Walter Lewin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521158060
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Compact Stellar X-ray Sources written by Walter Lewin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: X-ray astronomy is the prime available window on astrophysical compact objects: black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In the last ten years new observational opportunities have led to an explosion of knowledge in this field. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the astrophysics of compact objects that emit X-rays. Sixteen chapters written by the foremost experts in the field cover the observations and the astrophysical interpretation of these objects. Topics covered include binary systems, gamma ray burst sources, soft gamma ray repeaters, anomalous X-ray pulsars, super-soft sources, and enigmatic fast X-ray transients.

Author : Stephen S. Holt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectroscopy of Compact Extragalactic X-ray Sources written by Stephen S. Holt and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter H. G. Lewin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521245210
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accretion-driven Stellar X-ray Sources written by Walter H. G. Lewin and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter W. Sanford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Galactic X-ray Sources written by Peter W. Sanford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1982 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joachim E. Trümper
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540344128
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Universe in X-Rays written by Joachim E. Trümper and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from leading scientists in the field, and edited by two of the most prominent astronomers of our time, this is a totally authoritative volume on X-ray astronomy that will be essential reading for everyone interested – from students to astrophysicists and physicists. All the aspects of this exciting area of study are covered, from astronomical instrumentation to extragalactic X-ray astronomy.

Author : Philip A. Charles
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521437127
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the X-Ray Universe written by Philip A. Charles and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1995-10-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one-stop general book on the whole of X-ray astronomy.

Author : H. Gursky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Binary X-Ray Sources written by H. Gursky and published by Springer. This book was released on 1975-08-31 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a set of articles based on a session of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in San Francisco in February, 1974. The reason for the meeting arose from the need to communicate to the largest possible scientific community the dramatic advances which have been made in recent years in the understanding of collapsed objects: neutron stars and black holes. Thanks to an unprecedented resonance between X-ray, y-ray, radio and optical astronomy and important new theoretical developments in relativistic astro physics, a new deep understanding has been acquired of the physical processes oc curring in the late stages of evolution of stars. This knowledge may be one of the greatest conquests of man's understanding of nature in this century. This book aims to give an essential and up-to-date view in this field. The analysis of the physics and astrophysics of neutron stars and black holes is here attacked from both theoretical and experimental points of view. In the experimental field we range from the reviews and catalogues of galactic X-ray sources (R. Gursky and E. Schreier) and pulsars (E. Groth) to the observations of the optical counter part of X-ray sources (P. Boynton) to finally the recently discovered gamma-ray bursts (I. Strong) and pulse astronomy R. B. Partridge).

Author : J. Leonard Culhane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780684167251
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book X-ray Astronomy written by J. Leonard Culhane and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Truemper
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789401085410
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Galactic X-Ray Binaries written by J. Truemper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.