Clocks in the Sky : The Story of Pulsars / by Geoff McNamara
(Popular Astronomy. ISSN:26268760)
| Publisher | New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Praxis |
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| Year | 2008 |
| Edition | 1st ed. 2008. |
| Authors | *McNamara, Geoff author SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Size | XIV, 190 p. 20 illus : online resource |
| Notes | ‘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’ 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 date with the announcement in 2006 of a new breed of pulsar, Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs), which emit short bursts of radio signals separated by long pauses. These may outnumber conventional radio pulsars by a ratio of four to one. Geoff McNamara ends by pointing out that, despite the enormous success of pulsar research in the second half of the twentieth century, the real discoveries are yet to be made including, perhaps, the detection of the hypothetical pulsar black hole binary system by the proposed Square Kilometre Array - the largest single radio telescope in the world HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76562-4 |
| Subjects | LCSH:Astronomy LCSH:Astrophysics LCSH:Observations, Astronomical LCSH:Astronomy—Observations LCSH:Gravitation FREE:Popular Science in Astronomy FREE:Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology FREE:Astronomy, Observations and Techniques FREE:Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory |
| Classification | LCC:QB1-991 DC23:520 |
| ID | 8000001829 |
| ISBN | 9780387765624 |