Neutron Stars, Black Holes and Binary X-Ray Sources
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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY A SERIES OF BOOKS ON THE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF SPACE SCIENCE AND OF GENERAL GEOPHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS PUBLISHED IN CONNECTION WITH THE JOURNAL SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS
Editorial Board J. E.
BLAMONT,
R. L. F. L.
GOLDBERG,
Laboratoire d'Aeronomie, Verrieres, France
BOYD,
University College, London, England
Kilt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, Ariz., U.S.A.
C. DE JAGER, University of Utrecht, Holland
Z.
G. H.
LUDWIG,
KOPAL ,
University of Manchester, Manchester, England
NOAA, National Environmental Satellite Service, Suitland, Md., U.S.A.
R. L fIST, Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching-Munchen, Germany B. M. MCCOR MAC,
Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Cali/., U.S.A.
H. E. L. I.
Z.
SEDOV,
SVESTKA,
NEWELL; N~SA, W~shington,
D.C., U.S.A.
Academy of Sciences of th'e U.S.s.R'" Moscow, U.S.S.R,
American Science and Engineering, Cambridge, Mass., U,S.A.
Secretary of the Editorial Board W.
DE GRAAFF,
Sterrewacht 'Sonnenborgh', University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Holland
VOLUME 48
NEUTRON STARS, BLACK HOLES AND BINARY X-RAY SOURCES Edited by
HERBERT GURSKY Center for Astrophysics, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory/Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
and
REMO RUFFINI Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., U.S.A.
D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT-HOLLAND
I BOSTON-U.S.A.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Neutron stars, black holes, and binary X-ray sources. (Astrophysics and space science library; v. 48) 'Articles based on a session of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held in San Francisco in February 1974.' Includes bibliographical references. 1. Neutron stars-Congresses. 2. Black holes (Astronomy) - Congresses. 3. X-ray astronomy - Congresses. 1. Gursky, Herbert. II. Ruffini, Remo. III. American Association for the Advancement of Science. IV. Series. 523 75-15716 QB843.N4N48 ISBN 978-90-277-0542-6 DOl 10.1007/978-94-010-1767-1
ISBN 978-94-010-1767-1 (eBook)
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T ABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
XI
HERBERT GURSKY
and
REMO RUFFINI
I Introduction
1
1. Early History 2. The Basic Theoretical Works on Gravitational Collapse 3. The Discovery of Neutron Stars and Black Holes
2 4 6
I Supernovae
13
Introduction Energetics
