The Neutron Star-Black Hole Connection (NATO Science Series C:)
Contributors: Chryssa Kouveliotou (Editor); J.E Ventura (Editor); E.P. Van den Heuvel (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781402002052
Subjects: Stars, interstellar matter; Science/Mathematics; Astrophysics & Space Science; Science; Astronomy - Universe; Science / Astronomy; Cosmology
First sentence: Pulsar astronomy began serendipitously in 1967 when Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish discovered periodic signals originating from distinct parts of the sky via pen-chart recordings taken during an interplanetary scintillation survey of the radio sky at 81.5 MHz (Hewish et al. 1968).