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Neutron stars are as bewildering as they are elusive. The remnants of exploded stellar giants, they are tiny, merely twenty kilometers across, and incredibly dense. One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh several million tons. They can spin up to a thousand times per second, they possess the strongest magnetic fields known in nature, and they may be the source of the most powerful explosions in the universe. Through vivid storytelling and on-site reporting from observatories all over the world, Neutron Stars offers an engaging account of these still-mysterious objects.Award-winning science journalist Katia Moskvitch takes readers from the vast Atacama Desert to the arid plains of South Africa to visit the magnificent radio telescopes and brilliant scientists responsible for our knowledge of neutron stars. She recounts the exhilarating discoveries, frustrating disappointments, and heated controversies of the past several decades and explains cutting-edge research into such phenomena as colliding neutron stars and fast radio bursts: extremely powerful but ultra-short flashes in space that scientists are still struggling to understand. She also shows how neutron stars have advanced our broader understanding of the universe-shedding light on topics such as dark matter, black holes, general relativity, and the origins of heavy elements like gold and platinum-and how we might one day use these cosmic beacons to guide interstellar travel.With clarity and passion, Moskvitch describes what we are learning at the boundaries of astronomy, where stars have life beyond death.
Neutron stars. --- Pulsars. --- Étoiles à neutrons. --- Neutron stars --- Pulsars --- Étoiles à neutrons.
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This self-contained introduction to compact star physics explains important concepts from areas such as general relativity, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and nuclear physics. Containing many tested exercises, and written by an international expert in the research field, the book provides important insights on the basic concepts of compact stars, discusses white dwarfs, neutron stars, quark stars and exotic compact stars. Included are sections on astrophysical observations of compact stars, and present and future terrestrial experiments related to compact stars physics, as the study of exotic nuclei and relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Major developments in the field such as the discovery of massive neutron stars, and a discussion of the recent gravitational wave measurement of a neutron star merger are also presented. This book is ideal for graduate students and researchers working on the physics of compact stars, general relativity and nuclear physics.
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Cosmic dust --- Neutron stars --- Solids --- Etoiles à neutrons --- Solides --- Congresses --- Congrès --- 52 --- -Neutron stars --- -Solids --- -#KVIV --- Solid state physics --- Transparent solids --- Compact objects (Astronomy) --- Stars --- Pulsars --- Dust --- Interstellar matter --- Astronomie. Astrofysica. Ruimteonderzoek. Geodesie --- Congresses. --- Etoiles à neutrons --- Congrès --- #KVIV --- Physique de l'état solide. --- Poussière cosmique. --- Étoiles à neutrons. --- Solides. --- Physique de l'état solide. --- Poussière cosmique. --- Étoiles à neutrons.
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Cosmology. --- Nuclear astrophysics. --- Planets --- White dwarf stars. --- Black holes (Astronomy) --- Neutron stars. --- Big bang theory. --- Astrophysique nucléaire. --- Trous noirs (astronomie) --- Planètes --- Étoiles naines. --- Étoiles à neutrons. --- Big bang. --- Internal structure. --- Structure interne. --- Astrophysique nucléaire. --- Planètes --- Étoiles naines. --- Étoiles à neutrons.
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