The neutron star-black hole connection / edited by Chryssa Kouveliotou, Joseph Ventura, and Ed van den Heuvel.

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NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Neutron Star-Black Hole Connection (1999 : Eloúnda, Greece) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2001.
Description
xvii, 522 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Series
    NATO science series. Series C, Mathematical and physical sciences ; v. 567. [More in this series]
    Notes
    "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Neutron Star-Black Hole Connection, Elounda, Crete, Greece, 7-18 June 1999"--Title page verso.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Radio Pulsars
    • an Observer's Perspective / D.R. Lorimer
    • Neutron Star Birth Rates / D.R. Lorimer
    • Kinematics of Radio Pulsars / R. Ramachandran
    • Superfluid Dynamics and Energy Dissipation in Neutron Stars / M. Ali Alpar
    • Magnetic Fields of Neutron Stars / S. Konar and D. Bhattacharya
    • Neutron Star and Black Hole Formation / C.L. Fryer
    • Coalescence Rates of Compact Objects / V. Kalogera
    • The Final Fate of Coalesing Compact Binaries: From Black Hole to Planet Formation / F.A. Rasio
    • Accretion Discs / H.C. Spruit
    • Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Discs / H.C. Spruit
    • Inner Region of Accretion Flows onto Black Holes / M. Kafatos and P. Subramanian
    • Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Binary Systems: Observational Properties / E.P.J. van den Heuvel
    • Formation and Evolution of Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Binary Systems / E.P.J. van den Heuvel
    • Transient Low-Mass X-ray Binaries in Quiescence / L. Bildsten and R.E. Rutledge
    • A Comparison of Radio Emission from Neutron Star and Black Hole X-ray Binaries / R.P. Fender
    • Black Hole and Neutron Star Jet Sources / I.F. Mirabel
    • Bulk-Flow Comptonization and Time Lags due to Comptonization / N.D. Kylafis and P. Reig
    • GRS 1915+105 as a Black Hole Accretion Disc Laboratory / T. Belloni
    • Weighing Black Holes with the Largest Optical Telescopes / E.T. Harlaftis and A.V. Fillipenko
    • Physics of Plasma Outflows / S.V. Bogovalov and K. Tsinganos
    • Timing the Kiloherz Quasi-periodic Oscillations in LMXR Binaries / M. Mendez
    • Modeling the Time Variability of Black Hole Candidates / D. Kazanas
    • Relativistic Models of kHz QPOs / W. Kluzniak
    • Phenomenology of the 35 day Cycle / N. Shakura
    • Spin
    • Orbit Coupling in X-ray Binaries / T.M. Tauris and G.J. Savonije
    • High Mass Black Holes in Soft X-ray Transients / G.E. Brown, C.-H. Lee and H. Bethe
    • Anomalous X-ray Pulsars / S. Mereghetti
    • Astrophysics of the Soft Gamma Repeaters and the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars / C. Thompson
    • Neutron Star Envelopes and Thermal Radiation from the Magnetic Surface / J. Ventura and A. Potekhin
    • Gamma-ray Bursts: History and Observations / G.J. Fishman
    • The Afterglow of Gamma-ray Bursts: Lights on the Mystery / L. Piro
    • Gamma-ray Bursts and Afterglows: The Fireball Shock Model / P. Meszaros
    • Gamma-ray Bursts from Neutron Stars Spun up in X-ray Binaries / H.C. Spruit
    • The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) / M. Weisskopf.
    ISBN
    • 1402002041 ((alk. paper))
    • 9781402002045 ((alk. paper))
    • 140200205X ((PB))
    • 9781402002052 ((PB))
    LCCN
    2001050611
    OCLC
    48449724
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