The neutron star-black hole connection
By: edited by Chryssa Kouveliotou, Joseph Ventura, and Ed van den Heuvel.
Contributors: Kouveliotou, Chryssa.; Ventura, Joseph.; Heuvel, Edward Peter Jacobus van den, 1940-
Series: NATO science series -- v. 567
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Neutron stars -- Congresses.; Black holes (Astronomy) -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Radio Pulsars and Neutron Stars 1; title: D.R. Lorimer: Radio Pulsars - an Observer's Perspective 3; title: D.R. Lorimer: Neutron Star Birth Rates 21; title: R. Ramachandran: Kinematics of Radio Pulsars 41; title: M. Ali Alpar: Superfluid Dynamics and Energy Dissipation in; title: Neutron Stars 57; title: S. Konar-and D. Bhattacharya: Magnetic Fields of Neutron Stars 71; title: 2. The Neutron Star - Black Hole Connection 77; title: C.L. Fryer: Neutron Star and Black Hole Formation 79; title: V. Kalogera: Coalescence Rates of Compact Objects 89; title: F.A. Rasio: The Final Fate of Coalesing Compact Binaries: From; title: Black Hole to Planet Formation 95; title: 3. Accretion Discs 109; title: H.C. Spruit: Accretion Discs 111; title: H.C. Spruit: Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Discs 141; title: M. Kafatos and P. Subramanian: Inner Region of Accretion Flows; title: onto Black Holes 159; title: 4. Neutron stars and Black Holes in Binaries 169; title: E.P.J. van den Heuvel: Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Binary; title: Systems: Observational Properties 171; title: E.P.J. van den Heuvel: Formation and Evolution of Neutron Stars; title: and Black Holes in Binary Systems 173; title: L. Bildsten and R.E. Rutledge: Transient Low-Mass X-ray Binaries; title: in Quiescence 245; title: R.P. Fender: A Comparison of Radio Emission from Neutron Star; title: and Black Hole X-ray Binaries 261; title: I.F. Mirabel: Black Hole and Neutron StarJet Sources 267; title: N.D. Kylafis and P. Reig: Bulk-Flow Comptonization and Time Lags; title: due to Comptonization 283; title: T. Belloni: GRS 1915+105 as a Black Hole Accretion Disc Laboratory 295; title: E.T. Harlaftis and A.V. Fillipenko: Weighing Black Holes; title: with the Largest Optical Telescopes 301; title: S.V. Bogovalov and K. Tsinganos: Physics of Plasma Outflows 307; title: M. Mendez: Timing the Kiloherz Quasi-periodic Oscillations; title: in LMXR Binaries 313; title: D. Kazanas: Modeling the Time Variability of Black Hole Candidates 319; title: W. Kluzniak: Relativistic Models of kHz QPOs 325; title: N. Shakura: Phenomenology of the 35 day Cycle 331; title: T.M. Tauris and G.J. Savonije: Spin-Orbit Coupling in; title: X-ray Binaries 337; title: G.E. Brown, C.-H. Lee, and H. Bethe: High Mass Black Holes; title: in Soft X-ray Transients 343; title: 5. Magnetars 349; title: S. Mereghetti: Anomalous X-ray Pulsars 351; title: C. Thompson: Astrophysics of the Soft Gamma Repeaters and; title: the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars 369; title: J. Ventura and A. Potekhin: Neutron Star Envelopes and; title: Thermal Radiation from the Magnetic Surface 393; title: 6. Gamma-ray Bursts 415; title: G.J. Fishman: Gamma-ray Bursts: History and Observations 417; title: L. Piro: The Afterglow of Gamma-ray Bursts: Light on the Mystery 431; title: P. Meszaros: Gamma-ray Bursts and Afterglows: The; title: Fireball Shock Model 451; title: H.C. Spruit: Gamma-ray Bursts from Neutron Stars Spun up in; title: X-ray Binaries 467; title: 7. New Experiments 475; title: M. Weisskopf: The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) 477.