03178nam 2200649Ia 450 991045440560332120200520144314.01-282-23564-897866122356410-387-76562-X10.1007/978-0-387-76562-4(CKB)1000000000746354(EBL)437783(OCoLC)370598939(SSID)ssj0000123812(PQKBManifestationID)11132688(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000123812(PQKBWorkID)10014827(PQKB)10290910(DE-He213)978-0-387-76562-4(MiAaPQ)EBC437783(PPN)134124464(Au-PeEL)EBL437783(CaPaEBR)ebr10294490(CaONFJC)MIL223564(EXLCZ)99100000000074635420080331d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrClocks in the sky[electronic resource] the story of pulsars /Geoff McNamara1st ed. 2008.Berlin ;New York Springer ;Chichester, UK Published in association with Praxisc20081 online resource (200 p.)Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomyDescription based upon print version of record.0-387-76560-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.‘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. 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.Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy.PulsarsRadiation sourcesElectronic books.Pulsars.Radiation sources.523.8874McNamara Geoff906154MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454405603321Clocks in the sky2026723UNINA