Clocks in the Sky
Geoff. McNamara
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Berlin : Springer , c2008
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (200 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 'Life & Death Among The Stars'; '1932'; 'A New Window'; 'scruff'; 'What makes pulsars tick?'; 'The Crab'; 'Optical Pulsars'; 'The Searchers'; 'Two by Two'; 'Faster'; 'Globular Pulsars'; 'Pulsar Planets'; 'Magnetars'; 'seeing Double'; 'Of Multibeams and RRATs'; 'The Future'. - Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, the collapsed cores of once massive stars that ended their lives as supernova explosions. Pulsar rotation rates can reach incredible speeds, up to hundreds of times per second. This title explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy.
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| ISBN | 9780387765600
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