Neutron Stars: Theory and Observation

by David Pines and Joseph Ventura

Book Overview

Some twenty-three years after the discovery of pulsars and their identification as rotating neutron stars, neutron star physics may be regarded as comingofage. Pul- sars and accreting neutron stars have now been studied at every wavelength, from the initial radio observations, through optical, X-, and "{-ray, up to the very recent observations in the TeV region, while theorists have studied in some detail relevant physical processes both outside and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792313976
• ISBN13: 9780792313977
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"