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Compact stellar X-ray sources /
X-ray astronomy is the prime available window on astrophysical compact objects: black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In this book, the foremost experts in the field provide a comprehensive overview of the observations and astrophysics of these objects. This is a valuable reference for gradua...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Cambridge astrophysics series ;
39. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Accreting neutron stars and black holes: a decade of discoveries; 2 Rapid X-ray variability; 3 New views of thermonuclear bursts; 4 Black hole binaries; 5 Optical, ultraviolet and infrared observations of X-ray binaries; 6 Fast X-ray transients and X-ray flashes; 7 Isolated neutron stars; 8 Globular cluster X-ray sources; 9 Jets from X-ray binaries; 10 X-rays from cataclysmic variables; 11 Super-soft sources; 12 Compact stellar X-ray sources in normal galaxies; 13 Accretion in compact binaries.