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Stellar remnants
- Title
- Stellar remnants / S.D. Kawaler, I. Novikov, G. Srinivasan ; edited by Georges Meynet and Daniel Schaerer.
- Author
- Kawaler, Steven D.
- Publication
- New York : Springer, [1997], ©1997.
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- Description
- x, 340 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Saas-Fee advanced course 25 lecture notes ; 1995
- Uniform Title
- Saas-Fee advanced course ... lecture notes ; 1995.
- Subject
- Note
- "Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- White Dwarf Stars / Steven D. Kawaler. 1. Introduction. 2. Observed Properties of White Dwarfs. 3. Physics of White Dwarfs Interiors. 4. White Dwarf Formation and Early Cooling. 5. Chemical Evolution of White Dwarfs. 6. White Dwarf Cooling and the White Dwarf Luminosity Function. 7. Nonradial Oscillations of White Dwarfs: Theory. 8. Pulsating White Dwarfs. 9. Astrophysical Applications of White Dwarfs -- Neutron Stars / G. Srinivasan. 1. A Historical Introduction. 2. The Nature of Pulsars. 3. The Physics of Neutron Stars. 4. The Progenitors of Neutron Stars. 5. Binary Pulsars. 6. Millisecond Pulsars. 7. Magnetic Field Evolution. 8. Glitches. 9. Plate Tectonics -- Black Holes / Igor Novikov. 1. Astrophysics of Black Holes. 2. A Nonrotating Black Hole. 3. A Rotating Black Hole. 4. Electromagnetic Fields Near a Black Hole. 5. Some Aspects of Physics of Black Holes, Wormholes, and Time Machines.
- 6. Observational Appearance of the Black Holes in the Universe. 7. Primordial Black Holes.
- ISBN
- 3540615202 (hc : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96045985
- OCLC
- 503185954
- ocn503185954
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries