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200 10$aClocks in the sky $ethe story of pulsars /$fGeoff McNamara
205   $a1st ed. 2008.
210   $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cSpringer ;$aChichester, UK $cPublished in association with Praxis$dc2008
215   $a1 online resource (200 p.)
225 1 $aSpringer-Praxis books in popular astronomy
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-387-76560-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $a?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?.
330   $aPulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, the collapsed cores of once massive stars that ended their lives as supernova explosions. In this book, Geoff McNamara explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy. The story of pulsars is brought right up to date with the announcement in 2006 of a new breed of pulsar, Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs), which emit short bursts of radio signals separated by long pauses. These may outnumber conventional radio pulsars by a ratio of four to one. Geoff McNamara ends by pointing out that, despite the enormous success of pulsar research in the second half of the twentieth century, the real discoveries are yet to be made including, perhaps, the detection of the hypothetical pulsar black hole binary system by the proposed Square Kilometre Array - the largest single radio telescope in the world.
410  0$aSpringer-Praxis books in popular astronomy.
606   $aPulsars
606   $aRadiation sources
615  0$aPulsars.
615  0$aRadiation sources.
676   $a523.8874
700   $aMcNamara$b Geoff$01682182
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906   $aBOOK
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996   $aClocks in the sky$94052102
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