Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2017. — 340 p. — ISBN: 9789811045233. This textbook introduces the current astrophysical observations of black holes, and discusses the leading techniques to study the strong gravity region around these objects with electromagnetic radiation. More importantly, it provides the basic tools for writing an astrophysical code and testing the Kerr...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. — 285 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 794). — ISBN: 978-3-540-76937-8 (eBook), 978-3-642-26215-9 (Softcover), 978-3-540-76936-1 (Hardcover). These Lecture Notes focus on the physics of relativistic jet sources in the universe, from galactic microquasars to active galactic nuclei (AGN). The early 21 st century is an epoch in which a large...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010. — 438 pp. — (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library). — ISBN: 978-3-642-01289-1 (Print) 978-3-642-01290-7 (Online). Accretion flows, winds and jets of compact astrophysical objects and stars are generally described within the framework of hydrodynamical and magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) flows. Analytical analysis of the problem provides...
Oxford University Press, 1993, 192 Pages The discovery 25 years ago of the remarkable astronomical objects known as pulsars-and their identification as neutron stars-fulfilled a prediction made more than 30 years earlier. Over 550 pulsars are now known, almost all detected at radio frequencies which capture their distinctive bursts of electromagnetic energy. These pulse periods...
Springer, Berlin, 2007, 679 pages, ISBN: 3540257705 In astronomy, a compact star (sometimes called a compact object) is a star that is a white dwarf, a neutron star or a black hole. Our Galaxy is populated by billions of white dwarfs, a few hundred million neutron stars and probably by a few hundred thousand black holes. Of all these objects, only a very tiny fraction has been...
CRC Press, 2006. — 488 p. — (Series in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation). — ISBN: 9780750309998. Black holes are among the most mysterious objects that the human mind has been capable of imagining. As pure mathematical constructions, they are tools for exploiting the fundamental laws of physics. As astronomical sources, they are part of our cosmic landscape,...
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012. — 613 pp. — (Astrophysics and Space Science Library 386). — ISBN: 978-3-642-27563-0 (Print) 978-3-642-27564-7 (Online). The 50th anniversary of the discovery of quasars in 1963 presents an interesting opportunity to ask questions about the current state of quasar research. Formatted as a series of interviews with noted researchers in the...
EPFL Press + CRC Press, 2011, 140 pages, ISBN: 1439873542 The universe, in all its richness, diversity and complexity, is populated by a myriad of intriguing celestial objects. Among the most exotic of them are gravitationally lensed quasars. A quasar is an extremely bright nucleus of a galaxy, and when such an object is gravitationally lensed, multiple images of the quasar are...
The University of Chicago Press, 2008, 265 Pages, ISBN: 0226283461 If scientists can’t touch the Sun, how do they know what it’s made of? And if we can’t see black holes, how can we be confident they exist? Gravitational physicist David Garfinkle and his brother, science fiction writer Richard Garfinkle, tackle these questions and more in Three Steps to the Universe, a tour...
2nd Edition — Springer-Verlag New York 2000. — 468 pp. — (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library). — ISBN: 978-0-387-98977-8 (hardcover) 978-1-4612-7045-4 (softcover).
White dwarfs, neutron stars, and (solar mass) black holes are the collapsed cores of stars which, near the ends of their luminous lives, have shed most of their mass in supernova explosions or other, less...
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2004. – 545 p. – ISBN: 9812389547
Space observations are currently providing a glimpse of various new states of matter possibly present in compact stars, with terrestrial laboratories producing compelling evidence in support. The aim of this book is to facilitate the exchange of ideas - both established and emergent, both theoretical...
Springer, 1999. - 565 pp. The collection of papers dedicated to 60th birthday of C. V. Vishveshwara, Indian scientist and black hole physicist. The Black Hole Equilibrium Problem (by B. Carter). Stability of Black Holes (by Bernard F. Whiting). Separability of Wave Equations (by E. G. Kalnins, W. Miller Jr. and G. C. Williams). Energy-Conservation Laws for Perturbed Stars and...
Springer, 2021. — 181 p. — ISBN 978-3662622018. Get ready to embark on the exciting search for dark matter―the invisible mass that dominates our universe. This popular science book explains why this mysterious dark matter has been incorporated into the standard model of the universe and how scientists are able to “observe” the invisible. The book starts with the early...
Springer, 2021. — 181 p. — ISBN 978-3662622018. Get ready to embark on the exciting search for dark matter―the invisible mass that dominates our universe. This popular science book explains why this mysterious dark matter has been incorporated into the standard model of the universe and how scientists are able to “observe” the invisible. The book starts with the early...
London: Springer. – 2007. – 301 p. Active galaxies involve some of the most extreme conditions and some of the most intriguing phenomena found anywhere in the universe and their study is amongst the hottest areas of research interest, yet there is currently no book that makes the topic available at a non-mathematical and not too technical a level. The purpose of this book is to...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 707 p. (Cambridge astrophysics Series, 39). X-ray astronomy provides the main window onto astrophysical compact objects such as black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. In the past ten years new observational opportunities have led to an explosion of knowledge in this field. In sixteen chapters, written by leading experts, this...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 314 p. — Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics XXI). — ISBN: 1107030196. It has been more than fifty years since the first significant paper on accretion flows was written. In recent years, X-ray satellites capable of identifying accretion disks and radiation jets - indications that accretion has taken place - have significantly...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 325 p. This self-contained introduction to compact star physics explains important concepts from areas such as general relativity, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and nuclear physics. Containing many tested exercises, and written by an international expert in the research field, the book provides important insights on the...
Springer, 2010. — 147 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 811). — ISBN: 978-3-642-12866-0, 978-3-642-12865-3. The purpose of these lectures is to address the following two strongly coupled issues: What is the ground state (and its properties) of dense (quark) matter? What is the matter composition of a compact star? In order to fulfill their primary goal - to remain both concise and...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 372 p. — ISBN: 0521884837. Capturing the excitement and accomplishments of X-ray astronomy, this second edition now includes a broader range of astronomical phenomena and dramatic new results from the most powerful X-ray telescopes. Covering all areas of astronomical research, ranging from the smallest to the largest objects,...
Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2004. – 661 pages. This textbook is the outgrowth of a course on the physics of compact objects, which we have taught at Cornell University since 1975. As a class, compact stars consist of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. As the endpoint states of normal stellar evolution, they represent fundamental constituents of the...
CRC Press, 2022. — 172 p. — ISBN 978-0-367-76862-1. Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy explores the exciting hunt for low frequency gravitational waves by using the extraordinary timing precision of pulsars. The book takes the reader on a tour across the expansive gravitational-wave landscape, from LIGO detections to the search for polarization patterns in the Cosmic...
New York: Springer, 2017. — 318 p. In view of the current and forthcoming observational data on pulsar wind nebulae, this book offers an assessment of the theoretical state of the art of modelling them. The expert authors also review the observational status of the field and provide an outlook for future developments.
New York : W. W. NORTON & COMPANY 2007. — 260 p. Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tyson's talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with clarity and enthusiasm. Bringing together more than forty of Tyson's favorite essays, ?Death by Black Hole? explores a myriad of cosmic topics, from...
Springer, 2015. - 324 pp.
White dwarfs, each containing about as much mass as our Sun but packed into a volume about the size of Earth, are the endpoints of evolution for most stars. Thousands of these faint objects have now been discovered, though only a century ago only three were known. They are among the most common stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, and they have become...
World Scientific, Singapore, 1994, 421 pages, ISBN10: 9810212739 Accretion disks in compact stellar systems containing white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes are the principal laboratory for understanding the role of accretion disks in a wide variety of environments from proto-stars to quasars. Recent work on disk instabilities and dynamics has given a new theoreticcal...
Cambridge University Press, 2007, 339 pages, ISBN10: 0-521-85714-7 From supernovae and gamma-ray bursts to the accelerating Universe, this is an exploration of the intellectual threads that lead to some of the most exciting ideas in modern astrophysics and cosmology. This fully updated second edition incorporates new material on binary stars, black holes, gamma-ray bursts,...
Пер с англ. В.Н. Мельникова и Н.В. Мицкевича. — М.: Мир, 1977. — 376 с.: ил. Книга представляет собой наглядное физическое и математическое введение в современную релятивистскую астрофизику. Основное внимание уделено «черным дырам» и космологии как проявлениям гравитационного коллапса — возможной конечной стадии эволюции вещества в наблюдаемой области Вселенной. Книга...
Пер с англ. В.Н. Мельникова и Н.В. Мицкевича. — М.: Мир, 1977. — 376 с.: ил. Книга представляет собой наглядное физическое и математическое введение в современную релятивистскую астрофизику. Основное внимание уделено «черным дырам» и космологии как проявлениям гравитационного коллапса — возможной конечной стадии эволюции вещества в наблюдаемой области Вселенной. Книга...
Москва: Физматлит, 2015. — 410 с. Предлагаемая читателю книга содержит наиболее важные и принципиальные разделы современной теории дисковой и квази-сферической аккреции на черные дыры и замагниченные нейтронные звезды. Последовательно излагается расчет структуры стандартной модели стационарной дисковой аккреции (альфа-модель). Показано, как из сравнения теории нестационарной...
Монография. — М.: Мир, 1985. — 256 с. В книге, написанной известными американскими астрофизиками, изложены основы физики компактных космических объектов, представляющих собой конечные продукты звездной эволюции, — уже открытых белых карликов и нейтронных звезд, а также предсказанных теоретиками «черных дыр». Изложение дополняется многочисленными упражнениями. В русском переводе...
Монография. — М.: Мир, 1985. — 300 с. В книге, написанной известными американскими астрофизиками, изложены основы физики компактных космических объектов, представляющих собой конечные продукты звездной эволюции, — уже открытых белых карликов и нейтронных звезд, а также предсказанных теоретиками черных дыр. Изложение дополняется многочисленными упражнениями. В русском переводе...
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