Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Binary X-Ray Sources

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Introduction

   • Herbert Gursky, Remo Ruffini

   Pages 1-12

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3. Supernovae

   • Stirling A. Colgate

   Pages 13-27

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4. Pulse Astronomy: Short Time Scale Phenomena in Electromagnetic and Gravitational Wave Astronomy

   • R. B. Partridge

   Pages 29-45

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5. Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts

   • Ian Balfour Strong

   Pages 47-58

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6. The Physics of Gravitationally Collapsed Objects

   • Remo Ruffini

   Pages 59-118

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7. Observational Properties of Pulsars

   • Edward J. Groth

   Pages 119-173

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8. The Galactic X-Ray Sources

   • Herbert Gursky, Ethan Schreier

   Pages 175-220

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9. Optical Observations of Binary X-Ray Sources

   • Paul E. Boynton

   Pages 221-234

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10. Black Holes and Neutron Stars: Evolution of Binary Systems

    • Robert P. Kraft

    Pages 235-255

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11. Back Matter

    Pages 257-444

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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).

• Accretion
• Supernova
• astronomy
• astrophysics
• black hole
• black holes
• cosmic ray
• gamma-ray burst
• gravitation
• neutron star
• relativity
• solar system
• star
• stars
• stellar

• Center for Astrophysics, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory/Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, USA

  Herbert Gursky

• Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

  Remo Ruffini

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