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The lives of the neutron stars

edited by M.A. Alpar, Ü. Kızıloğlu, and J. van Paradijs

(NATO ASI series, Series C, Mathematical and physical sciences ; no. 450)

Kluwer Academic, c1995

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"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Lives of the Neutron Stars, Kemer, Turkey, August 29-September 12, 1993"--T.p. verso

"Published in cooperation with the NATO Scientific Affairs Division."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Description

This NATO AS! was the third in the series of Advanced Study Institutes on neutron stars, which started with 'Timing Neutron Stars', held in Qeme near izmir, Turkey (April 1988), followed by 'Neutron Stars, an Interdis ciplinary Subject', held in Agia Pelagia on the island of Crete (September 1990). The first school centered on our main observational access to neu tron stars, i. e. the timing of radio pulsars and accretion powered neutron stars, and on what timing of neutron stars teaches us of their structure and environment. The second school had as its theme the interplay between diverse areas of physics which find interesting, even exotic applications in the extreme conditions of neutron stars and their magnetospheres. As the field has developed, with the number of observed neutron stars rapidly in creasing, and our knowledge of many individual neutron stars getting deeper and more detailed, an evolutionary picture of neutron stars has started to emerge. This led us to choose 'The Lives of the Neutron Stars' as the uni fying theme of this third Advanced Study Institute on neutron stars. Different types of neutron star activity have been proposed to follow one another in stages during the lives of neutron stars in the same basic population; the evolutionary connection between low-mass X-ray binaries and millisecond radio pulsars is perhaps the prime example.

Table of Contents

1. The Birth of Neutron Stars. 2. The Structure of Neutron Stars and their Thermal, Magnetic and Dynamical Evolution. 3. Radio Pulsars. 4. X-Ray Binaries. 5. ... And their Evolution. 6. Gamma-Ray Bursts. 7. Observational Prospects. Summary. Author Index. Subject Index. Object Index.

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