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Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Binary X-Ray Sources

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Editors:
  1. Herbert Gursky

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

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  2. Remo Ruffini

    1. Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

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Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 48)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    • Herbert Gursky, Remo Ruffini
    Pages 1-12

  3. Supernovae

    • Stirling A. Colgate
    Pages 13-27

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

    • R. B. Partridge
    Pages 29-45

  5. Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts

    • Ian Balfour Strong
    Pages 47-58

  6. The Physics of Gravitationally Collapsed Objects

    • Remo Ruffini
    Pages 59-118

  7. Observational Properties of Pulsars

    • Edward J. Groth
    Pages 119-173

  8. The Galactic X-Ray Sources

    • Herbert Gursky, Ethan Schreier
    Pages 175-220

  9. Optical Observations of Binary X-Ray Sources

    • Paul E. Boynton
    Pages 221-234

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

    • Robert P. Kraft
    Pages 235-255

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 257-444
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About this book

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).

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Herbert Gursky

  • Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

    Remo Ruffini

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Binary X-Ray Sources

  • Editors: Herbert Gursky, Remo Ruffini

  • Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1767-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1975

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0541-9Published: 31 August 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0542-6Published: 31 August 1975

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1767-1Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0067-0057

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 444

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

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