Compact Stars Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics and General Relativi
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 dis
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Compact Stars Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics, and General Relativity With 87 figures
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Norman K. Glendenning Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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Cover picture: Shock wave produced by the nearest millisecond pulsar, PSR J0437-4715, seen in the Hydrogen-alpha emission line with the CTIO telescope. The faint star directly behind shock is the white-dwarf companion of the pulsar. The distance between the shock wave and the star is about 1400 AU. Color image by Andrew S. Fruchter (Space Telescope
