Clocks in the Sky : The Story of Pulsars Paperback / softback
by Geoff McNamara
Part of the Popular Astronomy series
Paperback / softback
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Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, the collapsed cores of once massive stars that ended their lives as supernova explosions. In this book, Geoff McNamara explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy.
The story of pulsars is brought right up to date with the announcement in 2006 of a new breed of pulsar, Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs), which emit short bursts of radio signals separated by long pauses.
These may outnumber conventional radio pulsars by a ratio of four to one.
Geoff McNamara ends by pointing out that, despite the enormous success of pulsar research in the second half of the twentieth century, the real discoveries are yet to be made including, perhaps, the detection of the hypothetical pulsar black hole binary system by the proposed Square Kilometre Array - the largest single radio telescope in the world.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:190 pages, 20 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 190 p. 20 illus.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:17/11/2008
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- ISBN:9780387765600
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:190 pages, 20 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 190 p. 20 illus.
- Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Publication Date:17/11/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780387765600
