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Clocks in the sky : the story of pulsars /
Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, the collapsed cores of once massive stars that ended their lives as supernova explosions. 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 d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York : Chichester, UK :
Springer ; Published in association with Praxis,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.