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Title
Millisecond pulsars/ Sudip Bhattacharyya, Alessandro Papitto, Dipankar Bhattacharya, editors.
ISBN
9783030851989 (electronic bk.)
3030851982 (electronic bk.)
3030851974
9783030851972
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-85198-9 doi
Call Number
QB843.P8
Dewey Decimal Classification
523.8/874
Summary
This book includes nine chapters written by internationally recognized experts, covering all aspects of millisecond pulsars in one concise and cohesive volume. These aspects include pulsations powered by stellar spin, accretion and thermonuclear burning of accreted matter, their physics and utility, stellar evolution and the extreme physics of super-dense stellar cores. The book includes substantial background material as well as recent theoretical and multi-wavelength observational results. The volume will thus be useful for professional astronomers and graduate students alike. What is the behavior of the strong nuclear interaction, and what are the matter constituents at ultrahigh densities in neutron star cores? How do old neutron stars in binaries evolve? How does their magnetosphere interact with the surrounding plasma to accelerate particles and emit radiation observed at all wavelengths? These are just a few of the questions that millisecond pulsars are helping us answer and will settle in the near future with the next generation of instruments. Such quickly rotating, highly magnetized neutron stars are remarkable natural laboratories that allow us to investigate the fundamental constituents of matter and their interactions under extreme conditions that cannot be reproduced in terrestrial laboratories.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 23, 2022).
Series
Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 465.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030851972
Chapter 1: Radio Millisecond Pulsars
Chapter 2: The High-Energy Emission of Millisecond Pulsars
Chapter 3: The Emission Physics of Millisecond Pulsars
Chapter 4: Accretion Powered X-ray Millisecond Pulsars
Chapter 5: Nuclear-powered X-ray millisecond pulsars
Chapter 6: Transitional millisecond pulsars
Chapter 7: Origin and Binary Evolution of Millisecond Pulsars
Chapter 8: Millisecond Magnetars
Chapter 9: The Equation of State of Neutron Star Matter. Index.