Clocks in the Sky The Story of Pulsars /

• Main Author: McNamara, Geoff (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Praxis, 2008.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Popular works.; Gravitation.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

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...

Table of Contents:

• ‘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’.