Stellar Remnants
Three eminent scientists, each well known for the clarity of their writing, present for students and researchers what is known about the internal structure, origin and evolution of White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes, all objects at the final stag
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S.D.Kawaler LNovikov G. Srinivasan
Stellar Remnants Saas-Fee Advanced Course 25 Lecture Notes 1995 Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy Edited by Georges Meynet and Daniel Schaerer With 120 Figures
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Professor S. D. Kawaler Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, lA 50011, USA
Professor I. Novikov Theoretical Astrophysics Center Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen 0, Denmark
Professor G. Srinivasan Raman Research Institute (RRI), Sadashivanagar, C.V. Raman Avenue, Bangalore 560 080, India
Volume Editors: Dr. Georges Meynet Dr. Daniel Schaerer Observatoire de Geneve, 51 chemin des Maillettes, CH-1290 Sauverny, Switzerland
This series is edited on behalf of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy: Societe Suisse d'Astrophysique et d'Astronomic Observatoire de Geneve, ch. des Maillettes 51, CH-1290 Sauverny, Switzerland Cover photograph: Ground-based image of the supernova remnant of the Crab Nebula (left) and HST image of the central Crab Pulsar (right). Courtesy of Jeff Hester and Paul Scowen (Arizona State University), and NASA. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kawaler, Steven D. Stellar remnants / S. D. Kawaler, I. Novikov, G. Srinivasan; edited by Georges Meynet and Daniel Schaerer. p. cm. - (Saas-Fee advanced course 25 lecture notes; 1995) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 3-540-61520-2 (he: alk. paper) 1. Neutron stars - Congresses. 2. White dwarfs - Congresses. 3. Black holes (Astronomy) - Congresses. 4. Stars - Evolution-Congresses. I. Novikov, I. D. (Igor'Dmitrievich) II. Srinivasan, G. (Ganesan), 1942- . III. Meynet, G IV. Schaerer, Daniel. V. Title. VI. Series: Saas-Fee advanced course ...lecture notes; 1995. QB843.N4K39 1996 523.8'87-dc20 96-45985 CIP
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The 25^^ "Saas-Fee" Advanced Course organized by the Swiss Society for Astronomy
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