Black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars by Saul A. Teukolsky, Stuart L. Shapiro

Black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars



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Black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars Saul A. Teukolsky, Stuart L. Shapiro ebook
Page: 653
ISBN: 0471873179, 9780471873174
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc


In all it gives This is an exciting account about binary stars and the way black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars can evolve in them. Lectures will be presented by leading Physicists and Astrophysicists working in the interface of Nuclear Physics, White Dwarfs, Neutron Star Physics and Black Holes Physics. We call this type of explosion a "Type Ia supernova" ("Type Ia" is a historical moniker from before we understood what was exploding), and the supernova completely obliterates the white dwarf. They suggest that two compact stellar remnants, i.e., black holes, neutron stars, or white dwarfs, collided and merged together. A star undergoes many radical changes throughout its lifespan including the inevitable exhaustion of its fuel source. The trio would thereby be sensitive to the gravitational waves produced by small, dense objects orbiting one another, objects like white dwarfs, neutron stars and, most excitingly, black holes. An exhausted star will evolve into a neutron star, a black hole or a white dwarf – depending on its mass. Black holes, like neutron stars, white dwarfs and normal stars, also have strong magnetic fields that get even stronger the closer you get to the event horizon, or the point from which light cannot escape. Black holes, neutron stars or white dwarfs, collided and merged together. They suggest that two compact stellar remnants – black holes, neutron stars or white dwarfs – collided and merged together. They suggest that two compact stellar remnants, i.e. €�This tell-tale signal, called a quasi-periodic oscillation or QPO, is a characteristic feature of the accretion disks that often surround the most compact objects in the universe — white dwarf stars, neutron stars and black holes. White dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, X-ray pulsars you name it and this book has it. An artist's impression of the merger of two neutron stars. Though, it is only a simulation, nothing more. A journey of simulations of Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs and Space and Time. Short duration gamma-ray bursts are thought to be caused by the merger of some combination of white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes.