Cover of Compact Stars

Compact Stars

by Norman K. Glendenning

1996 390 pages eng

Neutron stars are the smallest denses stars known, with densities some 1014 times that of the Earth. They rotate with periods of fractions of a second, and their magnetic fields drive intense interstellar dynamos, lighting up entire nebulae. This text discusses the physics of these extreme objects. …

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