X-Ray Binaries - Couverture souple

Lewin, Walter H. G.

 
9780521599344: X-Ray Binaries

Synopsis

This long-awaited volume provides graduate students and researchers with the standard reference on X-ray binaries.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

X-ray binaries are some of the most varied and perplexing systems known to astronomers. The compact object which accretes mass from its companion star may be a white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole, whereas the donor star can be a 'normal' star or a white dwarf. The various combinations differ widely in their behaviour, and this timely volume provides a unique reference of our knowledge to date of all of them. Fifteen specially written chapters by a team of the world's foremost researchers in the field explore all aspects of the X-ray binaries. They cover the X-ray, ultraviolet, optical and radio properties of these violent systems and address key issues such as: how were these systems formed, and what will be their fate; how can we understand X-ray bursts, and how the quasi-periodic oscillations; what is the connection between millisecond radio pulsars and low-mass X-ray binaries; and how does the magnetic field of a neutron star decay? This long awaited review provides graduate students and researchers with the standard reference on X-ray binaries for many years to come.

Revue de presse

"This book will be a valuable addition to any physics or astronomy library; even the nonexpert will benefit from a few hours browsing through it." Herbert Gursky, American Scientist

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9780521416849: X-ray Binaries

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521416841 ISBN 13 :  9780521416849
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995
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