Clocks in the Sky The Story of Pulsars

Name: Clocks in the Sky The Story of Pulsars
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ISBN: 9780387765600

ISBN-10: 0387765603

ISBN-13: 9780387765600

Edition: 2008

Authors: Geoff McNamara

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Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, the collapsed cores of once massive stars that ended their lives as supernova explosions. Pulsar rotation rates can reach incredible speeds, up to hundreds of times per second. The story of how an object spins up to a significant fraction of the speed of light is fascinating and involves collapsing stellar cores following supernova explosions, while the faster ones result from stellar cannibalism. In this book, Geoff McNamara explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy. The story of pulsars is brought right up to date with the announcement in 2006 of a new breed of pulsar, Rotating Radio…

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 11/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


List of Abbreviations


Prologue


Introduction



Life and Death Among the Stars



1932



A New Window



Scruff



What Makes Pulsars Tick?



The Crab



Optical Pulsars



The Searchers



Two by Two



Faster and Stronger



Globular Pulsars



Pulsar Planets



Magnetars



Seeing Double



Of Multibeams and RRATs



The Future


Appendix


Index