Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Galaxies, clusters, intergalactic matter
|
Buy Now
The Neutron Star-Black Hole Connection (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
Loot Price: R6,107
Discovery Miles 61 070
|
|
The Neutron Star-Black Hole Connection (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
Series: NATO Science Series C, 567
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Set against the background of beautiful Mirabello Bay, astronomers
from fourteen countries met at Elounda, Crete in the period
7-18June, 1999 to debate some of the most compelling issues of
present day astrophysics. Neutron stars and black holes have been
at the forefront of astrophysics for over thirty years. As recently
as ten years ago it was still being debated whether galactic
stellar-mass black holes existed or not.It is now generally
accepted that many (possibly a thousand) stellar-mass black holes -
most of them still undetected - lie in low mass X-ray binary (LMXB)
systems; a few of them are detected every year as X-ray or
gamma-ray transients. These objects are more massive than 3 M, the
maximum possible mass 0 for a neutron star, and show none of the
tell-tale signs of neutron stars, such as X-ray bursts and X-ray
pulsations. It is quite remarkable that all LMXBs display a similar
temporal and spectral behaviour, 'independently of whether the
accreting compact object is a neutron star or a black hole. A broad
debate on these similarities and differences naturally constituted
one of the main focal points during the Elounda meeting. Evidence
on these aspects has been forthcoming from the Compton Gamma-ray
Observatory (CGRO), the ROSAT and ASCA satellites, the Rossi X-Ray
Timing Explorer (RXTE), and from the Beppo SAX Observatory."
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.