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Title
Timing neutron stars : pulsations, oscillations and explosions / Tomaso M. Belloni, Mariano Méndez, Chengmin Zhang, editors.
ISBN
366262110X electronic book
9783662621103 (electronic bk.)
9783662621080 hardback
3662621088 hardback
Published
Berlin, Germany : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : Illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-662-62110-3 doi
Call Number
QB843.N4
Dewey Decimal Classification
523.8/874
Summary
Neutron stars, whether isolated or in a binary system, display a varied and complex phenomenology, often accompanied by extreme variability of many time scales, which takes the form of pulsations due to the object rotation, quasi-periodicities associated to accretion of matter, and explosions due to matter accreted on the surface or to starquakes of highly magnetized objects. This book gives an overview of the current observational and theoretical standpoint in the research on the physics under the extreme conditions that neutron stars naturally provide. The six chapters explore three physical regions of a neutron star: the space around it, where accretion and pulsar companions allow testing of general relativity its surface, where millisecond pulsation and X-ray bursts provide clues about general relativistic effects and the equation of state of neutron matter its interior, of course, inaccessible to direct observations, can nevertheless, be probed with all observational parameters related to neutron star variability.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 461.
1. Astrophysical constraints on dense matter in neutron stars / M. Coleman Miller
2. General relativity measurements from pulsars / Marta Burgay, Delphine Perrodin, Andrea Possenti
3. Magnetars : A short review and some sparse considerations / Paolo Esposito, Nanda Rea, Gian Luca Israel
4. Accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars / Alessandro Patruno, Anna L. Watts
5. Thermonuclear X-ray bursts / Duncan K. Galloway, Laurens Keek
6. High-frequency variability in neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries / Mariano Méndez, Tomaso M. Belloni.
