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Title: |
Trends in Pulsar Research |
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| By (author): |
John A Lowry |
| ISBN10-13: |
1594545677 : 9781594545672 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
180x260mm |
| Pages: |
211 |
| Weight: |
.582 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - December 2006 |
| List Price: |
234.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Galaxies & stars |
| Pulsars are stars, a significant part of whose observed energy output is not continuous but is emitted as distinct flashes or pulses of electromagnetic radiation. Many pulsars also emit some radiation weakly and constantly, forming a background for the more intensive pulses. Three distinct classes of pulsars are presently known to astronomers, according to the source of energy that powers the radiation: Rotation-powered pulsars, where the loss of rotational energy of the star powers the radiation X-ray pulsars, where the gravitational potential energy of accreted matter is the energy source, and Magnetars, where the decay of an extremely strong magnetic field powers the radiation. Although all three classes of objects are neutron stars, their observable behaviour and the underlying physics are quite different. There are, however, connections. For example, X-ray pulsars are probably old rotation-powered pulsars that have already lost most of their energy, and have only become visible again after their binary companions expanded and began transferring matter on to the neutron star. The process of accretion can in turn transfer enough angular momentum to the neutron star to "recycle" it as a rotation-powered millisecond pulsar. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Preface; Pulsar Distances and the electron Distribution in the Galaxy; The Origin of the Magnetic Field of Pulsars and the Gravitomagnetic Theory; Accretion-Driven Millisecond X-ray Pulsars; A Link Between the Typical Radio Pulsars and Magnetars: Magnetic Eld Evolution Through Pulsar Glitches; Radiation of the Gravitational and Electromagnetic Binary; Neutrinospheres, Resonant Neutrino Oscillations, and Pulsar Kicks; Changes of the Orbital Periods of the Binary Pulsars; Quantum-Magnetic Collapse of a Neutron Gas: No Magnetar Fromation; Natal Pulsar Kicks from Back Reaction of Gravitational Waves; Index. |
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