X-ray Binaries
X-ray Binaries
Jan van Paradijs, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Edward P. J. van den Heuvel, Universiteit van Amsterdam and Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
$79.00
USDX-ray binaries are stellar systems that combine one normal star (like our sun) and a smaller star, such as a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole. This timely text provides a comprehensive overview of the unique and varied behavior of these combinations. Fifteen specially-written chapters by a team of the world's foremost researchers in the field explore all aspects of the X-ray binaries, including the X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, and radio properties of these violent systems, and address key issues such as how these systems formed and what their fate might be. They also discuss X-ray bursts and quasi-periodic oscillations, the connections between millisecond radio pulsars and low-mass X-ray binaries, and how the magnetic field of a neutron star decays. This long-awaited review provides graduate students and researchers with the standard reference on X-ray binaries for many years to come.
- 15 specially written chapters by the world's foremost authorities
- hot research topic
- key issues include X-ray pulsations, quasi-periodic oscillations, X-ray bursts
Reviews & endorsements
"This book will be a valuable addition to any physics or astronomy library; even the nonexpert will benefit from a few hours browsing through it." Herbert Gursky, American Scientist
Product details
January 1997Paperback
9780521599344
676 pages
248 × 175 × 31 mm
1.385kg
21 b/w illus. 36 tables
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. The properties of X-ray binaries, N. E. White, F. Nagase and A. N. Parmar
- 2. Optical and ultraviolet observations of X-ray binaries J. van Paradijs and J. E. McClintock
- 3. Black-hole binaries Y. Tanaka and W. H. G. Lewin
- 4. X-ray bursts Walter H. G. Lewin, Jan Van Paradijs and Ronald E. Taam
- 5. Millisecond pulsars D. Bhattacharya
- 6. Rapid aperiodic variability in binaries M. van der Klis
- 7. Radio properties of X-ray binaries R. M. Hjellming and X. Han
- 8. Cataclysmic variable stars France Anne-Dominic Córdova
- 9. Normal galaxies and their X-ray binary populations G. Fabbiano
- 10. Accretion in close binaries Andrew King
- 11. Formation and evolution of neutron stars and black holes in binaries F. Verbunt and E. P. J. van den Heuvel
- 12. The magnetic fields of neutron stars and their evolution D. Bhattacharya and G. Srinivasan
- 13. Cosmic gamma-ray bursts K. Hurley
- 14. A catalogue of X-ray binaries Jan van Paradijs
- 15. A compilation of cataclysmic binaries with known or suspected orbital periods Hans Ritter and Ulrich Kolb
- References
- Index.
