Neutron stars : the quest to understand the zombies of the cosmos
"Neutron stars are as bewildering as they are elusive. The remnants of exploded stellar giants, they are tiny, merely twenty kilometers across, and incredibly dense. One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh several million tons. They can spin up to a thousand times per second, they possess th...
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| Médium: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
Harvard University Press,
2020
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| Žánr/forma: | monografie |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-91935-8 |
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- A collision that shook the cosmos
- Deeper dive: the origin of gold
- Deeper dive: why was the kilonova blue?
- Discovering neutron stars ... and Little green men?
- Deeper dive: the interstellar medium, home of neutron stars
- When stars go boom
- Deeper dive: pulsar kicks
- Deeper dive: the death of massive stars
- Zombies and starquakes
- Deeper dive: the multibeam
- Deeper dive: the exotic world of x-ray sources
- Deeper dive: pulsar timing
- A journey to the center of the neutron star
- How neutron stars keep spoiling dark matter theories
- When pulsars have planets
- Giant scientific tools of the universe
- Deeper dive: Kepler's laws and beyond
- Fast radio bursts, an unfinished chapter.