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Compact Stars - Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, and General Relativity (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2000. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2000)
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Compact Stars - Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, and General Relativity (Paperback, 2nd ed. 2000. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2000)
Series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
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White dwarfs, neutron stars, and (solar mass) black holes are the
collapsed cores of stars which, near the ends of their luminous
lives, have shed most of their mass in supernova explosions or
other, less spectacular, instabilities. Here gravity crushes matter
to realms that lie far beyond present empirical knowledge. This
book explores the diverse forms that such compact stars can
possibly take, as constrained by the laws of nature: the general
principles of relativity and quantum mechanics, the properties of
nuclear matter deduced from nuclei, and the asymptotic freedom of
quarks at high density. The book is self contained. It reviews
general relativity, essential aspects of nuclear and particle
physics, and general features of white dwarfs, neutron stars and
black holes; it includes background on such matters as stellar
formation and evolution, the discovery of pulsars and associated
phenomena, and the strange-matter hypothesis. The book develops a
theory for the constitution of neutron stars and the more exotic
Hyperon Stars, Hybrid Stars (containing a quark matter core
surrounded by an intricate lattice of quark and hadronic matter)
and Strange Stars and Dwarfs (composed of the three light quark
flavors sheathed in a solid skin of heavy ions). This second
edition has been revised throughout to clarify discussions and
bring data up to date; it includes new figures, several new
sections, and new chapters on Bose condensates in neutron stars and
on phase transitions.
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