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...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: McNamara, Geoff (Συγγραφέας)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: New York, NY : Praxis, 2008.
Σειρά:Springer Praxis Books
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505 0 |a ‘Life & Death Among The Stars’ -- ‘1932’ -- ‘A New Window’ -- ’scruff’ -- ‘What makes pulsars tick?’ -- ‘The Crab’ -- ‘Optical Pulsars’ -- ‘The Searchers’ -- ‘Two by Two’ -- ‘Faster’ -- ‘Globular Pulsars’ -- ‘Pulsar Planets’ -- ‘Magnetars’ -- ’seeing Double’ -- ‘Of Multibeams and RRATs’ -- ‘The Future’. 
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