Overview
- Comprehensive reference written by leading international experts
- Reviews historical development in pulsar research and presents current understanding and open questions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library (ASSL, volume 357)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
Keywords
- Gravitational Waves from Spinning Neutron Stars
- Gravity
- Isolated Neutron Stars and Millisecond Pulsars
- Neutron
- Neutron Star Cooling and Magnetic Field Evolution
- Particle Acceleration and Interactions in Pulsar Magnetosph
- Pulsar Wind Nebulae
- Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters and Magnetars
- astronomy
- condensed matter
- general relativity
- magnetosphere
- relativity
- star
- stars
About this book
Neutron stars are the most compact astronomical objects in the universe which are accessible by direct observation. Studying neutron stars means studying physics in regimes unattainable in any terrestrial laboratory.
Understanding their observed complex phenomena requires a wide range of scientific disciplines, including the nuclear and condensed matter physics of very dense matter in neutron star interiors, plasma physics and quantum electrodynamics of magnetospheres, and the relativistic magneto-hydrodynamics of electron-positron pulsar winds interacting with some ambient medium. Not to mention the test bed neutron stars provide for general relativity theories, and their importance as potential sources of gravitational waves. It is this variety of disciplines which, among others, makes neutron star research so fascinating, not only for those who have been working in the field for many years but also for students and young scientists.
The aim of this book is to serve as a reference work which not only reviews the progress made since the early days of pulsar astronomy, but especially focuses on questions such as: "What have we learned about the subject and how did we learn it?", "What are the most important open questions in this area?" and "What new tools, telescopes, observations, and calculations are needed to answer these questions?".
All authors who have contributed to this book have devoted a significant part of their scientific careers to exploring the nature of neutron stars and understanding pulsars. Everyone has paid special attention to writing educational comprehensive review articles with the needs of beginners, students and young scientists as potential readers in mind. This book will be a valuable source of information for these groups.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neutron Stars and Pulsars
Editors: Werner Becker
Series Title: Astrophysics and Space Science Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76965-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-76964-4Published: 12 January 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50104-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-76965-1Published: 11 February 2009
Series ISSN: 0067-0057
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7985
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 697
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Strongly Correlated Systems, Superconductivity