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Cosmic catastrophes : exploding stars, black holes, and mapping the universe / / J. Craig Wheeler [[electronic resource]]
Cosmic catastrophes : exploding stars, black holes, and mapping the universe / / J. Craig Wheeler [[electronic resource]]
Autore Wheeler J. Craig
Edizione [Second edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xviii, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 523.84465
Soggetto topico Stars
Supernovae
Black holes (Astronomy)
Hyperspace
ISBN 1-107-16652-7
1-316-09947-4
1-280-75048-0
0-511-27013-5
9786610750481
0-511-26957-9
0-511-26844-0
0-511-32300-X
0-511-53662-3
0-511-26911-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1. Setting the stage : star formation and hydrogen burning in single stars -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Background -- 1.3. Evolution -- 2. Stellar death : the inexorable grip of gravity -- 2.1. Red giants -- 2.2. Stellar winds -- 2.3. Quantum deregulation -- 2.4. Core collapse -- 2.5. Transfiguration -- 3. Dancing with stars : binary stellar evolution -- 3.1. Multiple stars -- 3.2. Stellar orbits -- 3.3. Roche lobes : the cult symbol -- 3.4. The first stage of binary evolution : the Algol paradox -- 3.5. Mass transfer -- 3.6. Large separation -- 3.7. Small separation -- 3.8. Evolution of the second star -- 3.9. Common-envelope phase -- 3.10. Gravitational radiation -- 4. Accretion disks : flat stars -- 4.1. The third object -- 4.2. How a disk forms -- 4.3. Let there be light, and X-rays -- 4.4. A source of friction -- 4.5. A life of its own -- 4.6. Fat centers? The DAF zoo -- 5. White dwarfs : quantum dots -- 5.1. Single white dwarfs -- 5.2. Cataclysmic variables -- 5.3. The origin of cataclysmic variables -- 5.4. The final evolution of cataclysmic variables -- 6. Supernovae : stellar catastrophes -- 6.1. Observations -- 6.2. The fate of massive stars -- 6.3. Element factories -- 6.4. Collapse and explosion -- 6.5. Polarization and jets : new observations and new concepts -- 6.6. Type Ia supernovae : the peculiar breed -- 6.7. Light curves : radioactive nickel -- 7. Supernova 1987A : lessons and enigmas -- 7.1. The Large Magellanic Cloud awakes -- 7.2. The onset -- 7.3. Lessons from the progenitor -- 7.4. Neutrinos! -- 7.5. Neutron star? -- 7.6. The light curve -- 7.7. This cow's not spherical -- 7.8. Rings and jets -- 7.9. Other firsts -- 8. Neutron stars : atoms with attitude -- 8.1. History, theory leads, for once -- 8.2. The nature of pulsars, not little green men -- 8.3. Pulsars and supernovae, a game of hide and seek -- 8.4. Neutron star structure, iron skin and superfluid guts -- 8.5. Binary pulsars, "tango por dos" -- 8.6. X-rays from neutron stars, hints of a violent Universe -- 8.7. X-ray flares, a story retold -- 8.8. The Rapid Burster, none of the above -- 8.9. Millisecond pulsars -- 8.10. Soft gamma-ray repeaters, reach out and touch someone -- 8.11. Geminga -- 9. Black holes in theory : into the abyss -- 9.1. Why black holes? -- 9.2. The event horizon -- 9.3. Singularity -- 9.4. Being a treatise on the general nature of death within a black hole -- 9.5. Black holes in space and time -- 9.6. Black-hole evaporation : Hawking radiation -- 9.7. Fundamental properties of black holes -- 9.8. Inside black holes -- 10. Black holes in fact : exploring the reality -- 10.1. The search for black holes -- 10.2. Cygnus X-1 -- 10.3. Other suspects -- 10.4. Black-hole X-ray novae -- 10.5. The nature of the outburst -- 10.6. Lessons from the X-rays -- 10.7. SS 433 -- 10.8. Miniquasars -- 10.9. Giants among us -- 10.10. The middle ground -- 11. Gamma-ray bursts, black holes and the Universe : long, long ago and far, far away -- 11.1. Gamma-ray bursts : yet another cosmic mystery -- 11.2. The revolution -- 11.3. The shape of things -- 11.4. The supernova and gamma-ray-burst connection -- 11.5. The possibilities : birth pangs of black holes? -- 11.6. The short hard bursts -- 11.7. The future -- 11.8. The past in our future : the Dark Ages -- 12. Supernovae and the universe -- 12.1. Our expanding universe -- 12.2. The shape of the universe -- 12.3. The age of the universe -- 12.4. The fate of the universe -- 12.5. Dark matter -- 12.6. Vacuum energy, Einstein's blunder that wasn't -- 12.7. Type Ia supernovae as calibrated candles and understood candles -- 12.8. Supernovae and cosmology -- 12.9. Acceleration! -- 12.10. The shape of the universe revisited -- 12.11. Dark energy -- 12.12. The fate of the universe revisited -- 13. Wormholes and time machines : tunnels in space and time -- 13.1. The mystery of time -- 13.2. Wormholes -- 13.3. Time machines -- 14. Beyond : the frontiers -- 14.1. Quantum gravity -- 14.2. When the singularity is not a singularity -- 14.3. Hyperspace perspectives -- 14.4. String theory -- 14.5. Brane worlds -- 14.6. A holographic universe -- 14.7. Coda.
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Wheeler J. Craig  
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007
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Cosmic catastrophes : exploding stars, black holes, and mapping the universe / / J. Craig Wheeler [[electronic resource]]
Cosmic catastrophes : exploding stars, black holes, and mapping the universe / / J. Craig Wheeler [[electronic resource]]
Autore Wheeler J. Craig
Edizione [Second edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xviii, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 523.84465
Soggetto topico Stars
Supernovae
Black holes (Astronomy)
Hyperspace
ISBN 1-107-16652-7
1-316-09947-4
1-280-75048-0
0-511-27013-5
9786610750481
0-511-26957-9
0-511-26844-0
0-511-32300-X
0-511-53662-3
0-511-26911-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1. Setting the stage : star formation and hydrogen burning in single stars -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Background -- 1.3. Evolution -- 2. Stellar death : the inexorable grip of gravity -- 2.1. Red giants -- 2.2. Stellar winds -- 2.3. Quantum deregulation -- 2.4. Core collapse -- 2.5. Transfiguration -- 3. Dancing with stars : binary stellar evolution -- 3.1. Multiple stars -- 3.2. Stellar orbits -- 3.3. Roche lobes : the cult symbol -- 3.4. The first stage of binary evolution : the Algol paradox -- 3.5. Mass transfer -- 3.6. Large separation -- 3.7. Small separation -- 3.8. Evolution of the second star -- 3.9. Common-envelope phase -- 3.10. Gravitational radiation -- 4. Accretion disks : flat stars -- 4.1. The third object -- 4.2. How a disk forms -- 4.3. Let there be light, and X-rays -- 4.4. A source of friction -- 4.5. A life of its own -- 4.6. Fat centers? The DAF zoo -- 5. White dwarfs : quantum dots -- 5.1. Single white dwarfs -- 5.2. Cataclysmic variables -- 5.3. The origin of cataclysmic variables -- 5.4. The final evolution of cataclysmic variables -- 6. Supernovae : stellar catastrophes -- 6.1. Observations -- 6.2. The fate of massive stars -- 6.3. Element factories -- 6.4. Collapse and explosion -- 6.5. Polarization and jets : new observations and new concepts -- 6.6. Type Ia supernovae : the peculiar breed -- 6.7. Light curves : radioactive nickel -- 7. Supernova 1987A : lessons and enigmas -- 7.1. The Large Magellanic Cloud awakes -- 7.2. The onset -- 7.3. Lessons from the progenitor -- 7.4. Neutrinos! -- 7.5. Neutron star? -- 7.6. The light curve -- 7.7. This cow's not spherical -- 7.8. Rings and jets -- 7.9. Other firsts -- 8. Neutron stars : atoms with attitude -- 8.1. History, theory leads, for once -- 8.2. The nature of pulsars, not little green men -- 8.3. Pulsars and supernovae, a game of hide and seek -- 8.4. Neutron star structure, iron skin and superfluid guts -- 8.5. Binary pulsars, "tango por dos" -- 8.6. X-rays from neutron stars, hints of a violent Universe -- 8.7. X-ray flares, a story retold -- 8.8. The Rapid Burster, none of the above -- 8.9. Millisecond pulsars -- 8.10. Soft gamma-ray repeaters, reach out and touch someone -- 8.11. Geminga -- 9. Black holes in theory : into the abyss -- 9.1. Why black holes? -- 9.2. The event horizon -- 9.3. Singularity -- 9.4. Being a treatise on the general nature of death within a black hole -- 9.5. Black holes in space and time -- 9.6. Black-hole evaporation : Hawking radiation -- 9.7. Fundamental properties of black holes -- 9.8. Inside black holes -- 10. Black holes in fact : exploring the reality -- 10.1. The search for black holes -- 10.2. Cygnus X-1 -- 10.3. Other suspects -- 10.4. Black-hole X-ray novae -- 10.5. The nature of the outburst -- 10.6. Lessons from the X-rays -- 10.7. SS 433 -- 10.8. Miniquasars -- 10.9. Giants among us -- 10.10. The middle ground -- 11. Gamma-ray bursts, black holes and the Universe : long, long ago and far, far away -- 11.1. Gamma-ray bursts : yet another cosmic mystery -- 11.2. The revolution -- 11.3. The shape of things -- 11.4. The supernova and gamma-ray-burst connection -- 11.5. The possibilities : birth pangs of black holes? -- 11.6. The short hard bursts -- 11.7. The future -- 11.8. The past in our future : the Dark Ages -- 12. Supernovae and the universe -- 12.1. Our expanding universe -- 12.2. The shape of the universe -- 12.3. The age of the universe -- 12.4. The fate of the universe -- 12.5. Dark matter -- 12.6. Vacuum energy, Einstein's blunder that wasn't -- 12.7. Type Ia supernovae as calibrated candles and understood candles -- 12.8. Supernovae and cosmology -- 12.9. Acceleration! -- 12.10. The shape of the universe revisited -- 12.11. Dark energy -- 12.12. The fate of the universe revisited -- 13. Wormholes and time machines : tunnels in space and time -- 13.1. The mystery of time -- 13.2. Wormholes -- 13.3. Time machines -- 14. Beyond : the frontiers -- 14.1. Quantum gravity -- 14.2. When the singularity is not a singularity -- 14.3. Hyperspace perspectives -- 14.4. String theory -- 14.5. Brane worlds -- 14.6. A holographic universe -- 14.7. Coda.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910784332703321
Wheeler J. Craig  
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Cosmic catastrophes : exploding stars, black holes, and mapping the universe / / J. Craig Wheeler [[electronic resource]]
Cosmic catastrophes : exploding stars, black holes, and mapping the universe / / J. Craig Wheeler [[electronic resource]]
Autore Wheeler J. Craig
Edizione [Second edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xviii, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 523.84465
Soggetto topico Stars
Supernovae
Black holes (Astronomy)
Hyperspace
ISBN 1-107-16652-7
1-316-09947-4
1-280-75048-0
0-511-27013-5
9786610750481
0-511-26957-9
0-511-26844-0
0-511-32300-X
0-511-53662-3
0-511-26911-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1. Setting the stage : star formation and hydrogen burning in single stars -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Background -- 1.3. Evolution -- 2. Stellar death : the inexorable grip of gravity -- 2.1. Red giants -- 2.2. Stellar winds -- 2.3. Quantum deregulation -- 2.4. Core collapse -- 2.5. Transfiguration -- 3. Dancing with stars : binary stellar evolution -- 3.1. Multiple stars -- 3.2. Stellar orbits -- 3.3. Roche lobes : the cult symbol -- 3.4. The first stage of binary evolution : the Algol paradox -- 3.5. Mass transfer -- 3.6. Large separation -- 3.7. Small separation -- 3.8. Evolution of the second star -- 3.9. Common-envelope phase -- 3.10. Gravitational radiation -- 4. Accretion disks : flat stars -- 4.1. The third object -- 4.2. How a disk forms -- 4.3. Let there be light, and X-rays -- 4.4. A source of friction -- 4.5. A life of its own -- 4.6. Fat centers? The DAF zoo -- 5. White dwarfs : quantum dots -- 5.1. Single white dwarfs -- 5.2. Cataclysmic variables -- 5.3. The origin of cataclysmic variables -- 5.4. The final evolution of cataclysmic variables -- 6. Supernovae : stellar catastrophes -- 6.1. Observations -- 6.2. The fate of massive stars -- 6.3. Element factories -- 6.4. Collapse and explosion -- 6.5. Polarization and jets : new observations and new concepts -- 6.6. Type Ia supernovae : the peculiar breed -- 6.7. Light curves : radioactive nickel -- 7. Supernova 1987A : lessons and enigmas -- 7.1. The Large Magellanic Cloud awakes -- 7.2. The onset -- 7.3. Lessons from the progenitor -- 7.4. Neutrinos! -- 7.5. Neutron star? -- 7.6. The light curve -- 7.7. This cow's not spherical -- 7.8. Rings and jets -- 7.9. Other firsts -- 8. Neutron stars : atoms with attitude -- 8.1. History, theory leads, for once -- 8.2. The nature of pulsars, not little green men -- 8.3. Pulsars and supernovae, a game of hide and seek -- 8.4. Neutron star structure, iron skin and superfluid guts -- 8.5. Binary pulsars, "tango por dos" -- 8.6. X-rays from neutron stars, hints of a violent Universe -- 8.7. X-ray flares, a story retold -- 8.8. The Rapid Burster, none of the above -- 8.9. Millisecond pulsars -- 8.10. Soft gamma-ray repeaters, reach out and touch someone -- 8.11. Geminga -- 9. Black holes in theory : into the abyss -- 9.1. Why black holes? -- 9.2. The event horizon -- 9.3. Singularity -- 9.4. Being a treatise on the general nature of death within a black hole -- 9.5. Black holes in space and time -- 9.6. Black-hole evaporation : Hawking radiation -- 9.7. Fundamental properties of black holes -- 9.8. Inside black holes -- 10. Black holes in fact : exploring the reality -- 10.1. The search for black holes -- 10.2. Cygnus X-1 -- 10.3. Other suspects -- 10.4. Black-hole X-ray novae -- 10.5. The nature of the outburst -- 10.6. Lessons from the X-rays -- 10.7. SS 433 -- 10.8. Miniquasars -- 10.9. Giants among us -- 10.10. The middle ground -- 11. Gamma-ray bursts, black holes and the Universe : long, long ago and far, far away -- 11.1. Gamma-ray bursts : yet another cosmic mystery -- 11.2. The revolution -- 11.3. The shape of things -- 11.4. The supernova and gamma-ray-burst connection -- 11.5. The possibilities : birth pangs of black holes? -- 11.6. The short hard bursts -- 11.7. The future -- 11.8. The past in our future : the Dark Ages -- 12. Supernovae and the universe -- 12.1. Our expanding universe -- 12.2. The shape of the universe -- 12.3. The age of the universe -- 12.4. The fate of the universe -- 12.5. Dark matter -- 12.6. Vacuum energy, Einstein's blunder that wasn't -- 12.7. Type Ia supernovae as calibrated candles and understood candles -- 12.8. Supernovae and cosmology -- 12.9. Acceleration! -- 12.10. The shape of the universe revisited -- 12.11. Dark energy -- 12.12. The fate of the universe revisited -- 13. Wormholes and time machines : tunnels in space and time -- 13.1. The mystery of time -- 13.2. Wormholes -- 13.3. Time machines -- 14. Beyond : the frontiers -- 14.1. Quantum gravity -- 14.2. When the singularity is not a singularity -- 14.3. Hyperspace perspectives -- 14.4. String theory -- 14.5. Brane worlds -- 14.6. A holographic universe -- 14.7. Coda.
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Wheeler J. Craig  
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007
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Extreme Explosions [[electronic resource] ] : Supernovae, Hypernovae, Magnetars, and Other Unusual Cosmic Blasts / / by David S. Stevenson
Extreme Explosions [[electronic resource] ] : Supernovae, Hypernovae, Magnetars, and Other Unusual Cosmic Blasts / / by David S. Stevenson
Autore Stevenson David S
Edizione [1st ed. 2014.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (373 p.)
Disciplina 523.84465
Collana Astronomers' Universe
Soggetto topico Astronomy
Astrophysics
Nuclear physics
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Popular Science in Astronomy
Particle and Nuclear Physics
ISBN 1-4614-8136-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto The Evolution of Massive Stars -- The Top of the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram -- Collapsars, Hypernovae, and Long Gamma Ray Bursts -- Quiet supernovae, and Death by Fall-Back -- Luminous Blue Variables and Supernova 'Imposters' -- Death by Magnetar -- Pulsational Pair Instability and Pair Instability Supernovae -- Luminous Blue Flashes -- Population III Stars -- The Impact of Nuclear Reactions of Massive Stars on the Present Day Universe -- Red Novae and the Enigma of V838 Monocerotis.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910300367703321
Stevenson David S  
New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014
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Handbook of Supernovae [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Athem W. Alsabti, Paul Murdin
Handbook of Supernovae [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Athem W. Alsabti, Paul Murdin
Edizione [1st ed. 2017.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (850 illus., 680 illus. in color. eReference.)
Disciplina 523.84465
Collana Springer reference
Soggetto topico Astronomy
Astrophysics
Nuclear chemistry
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Nuclear Chemistry
ISBN 3-319-21846-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Review of Supernovae and Supernovae Remnants -- Historical Supernovae -- Types of Supernovae -- Supernovae and Stellar Evolution -- Light Curves and Spectra of Supernovae -- Explosion Mechanisms of Supernovae -- Stellar Remnants: Pulsars and Neutron Stars -- Stellar Remnants: Black Holes -- Nucleosynthesis in Supernovae -- Evolution of Supernovae and the Interstellar Medium -- Cosmology from Supernovae -- Supernovae, Galaxies, our Solar System and Life on Earth -- Neutrinos, Gravitational Waves and Cosmic Rays.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910265942303321
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017
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Kepler's new star (1604) : context and controversy / / edited by Patrick J. Boner
Kepler's new star (1604) : context and controversy / / edited by Patrick J. Boner
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (309 pages)
Disciplina 523.84465
Soggetto topico Supernovae - History
Astronomy - History - 17th century
ISBN 90-04-43727-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910794329603321
Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]
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Kepler's new star (1604) : context and controversy / / edited by Patrick J. Boner
Kepler's new star (1604) : context and controversy / / edited by Patrick J. Boner
Pubbl/distr/stampa Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (309 pages)
Disciplina 523.84465
Soggetto topico Supernovae - History
Astronomy - History - 17th century
ISBN 90-04-43727-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910810956403321
Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]
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Supernovae and gamma-ray bursters / K.W. Weiler, ed.
Supernovae and gamma-ray bursters / K.W. Weiler, ed.
Pubbl/distr/stampa Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2003
Descrizione fisica xi, 471 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Disciplina 523.84465
Altri autori (Persone) Weiler, Kurt Walter
Collana Lecture notes in physics, 0075-8450 ; 598
Soggetto topico Supernovae
Gamma ray bursts
ISBN 3540440534
Classificazione LC QB843.S95
52.9.576
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNISALENTO-991000735869707536
Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2003
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Superstelle in esplosione [[electronic resource] ] : Fare cosmologia con le supernovae e i gamma-ray burst / / by Alain Mazure, Stéphane Basa
Superstelle in esplosione [[electronic resource] ] : Fare cosmologia con le supernovae e i gamma-ray burst / / by Alain Mazure, Stéphane Basa
Autore Mazure Alain
Edizione [1st ed. 2010.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Milano : , : Springer Milan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2010
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (164 p.)
Disciplina 523.84465
Collana Le Stelle
Soggetto topico Observations, Astronomical
Astronomy—Observations
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Gravitation
Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
Popular Science in Astronomy
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
ISBN 1-283-00286-8
9786613002860
88-470-1625-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione ita
Nota di contenuto Aperitivo -- L’Universo in espansione -- Dall’Universo alle stelle -- Supernova -- Superstelle: i gamma-ray burst -- Pietre miliari nell’esplorazione del Cosmo -- Fari nel Cosmo -- Un brillante, oscuro futuro.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910767588603321
Mazure Alain  
Milano : , : Springer Milan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2010
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