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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.
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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
Cosmic catastrophes : exploding stars, black holes, and mapping the universe / / J. Craig Wheeler
Autore Wheeler J. Craig
Edizione [2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xviii, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 523.8
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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Experimental tests of the supernovae origin of cosmic rays / / by C.E. Fichtel and H.B. Ögelman
Experimental tests of the supernovae origin of cosmic rays / / by C.E. Fichtel and H.B. Ögelman
Autore Fichtel Carl E.
Pubbl/distr/stampa Washington, D.C. : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, , September 1968
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (iii, 17 pages) : illustrations
Collana NASA technical note
Soggetto topico Supernovae
Cosmic rays
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910715004503321
Fichtel Carl E.  
Washington, D.C. : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, , September 1968
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The historical supernovae / D.H. Clark and F.R. Stephenson
The historical supernovae / D.H. Clark and F.R. Stephenson
Autore Clark, D.H.
Pubbl/distr/stampa Oxford : Pergamon, 1977
Descrizione fisica x, 233 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Altri autori (Persone) Stephenson, F.R.
Soggetto topico Stars
Supernovae
Classificazione 52(091)
52.9.53
523.8'446
QB841
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNISALENTO-991000997089707536
Clark, D.H.  
Oxford : Pergamon, 1977
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Nucleosynthesis in massive stars and supernovae / by William A. Fowler and F. Hoyle
Nucleosynthesis in massive stars and supernovae / by William A. Fowler and F. Hoyle
Autore Fowler, William A.
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1964
Descrizione fisica vi, 148 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Altri autori (Persone) Hoyle, Fred
Soggetto topico Stars
Supernovae
Classificazione 52.9.536
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNISALENTO-991001119699707536
Fowler, William A.  
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1964
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Supernovae / Paul Murdin and Lesley Murdin
Supernovae / Paul Murdin and Lesley Murdin
Autore Murdin, Paul
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1985
Descrizione fisica 185 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Altri autori (Persone) Murdin, Lesleyauthor
Soggetto topico Supernovae
ISBN 052130038X
Classificazione 52.9.51
52.9.55
523
QB843
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNISALENTO-991001280479707536
Murdin, Paul  
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1985
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Supernovae / I.S. Shklovsky ; translated from the original manuscript by Literaturprojekt, Innsbruck, Austria
Supernovae / I.S. Shklovsky ; translated from the original manuscript by Literaturprojekt, Innsbruck, Austria
Autore Shklovskii, Iosef Shmuelovich
Pubbl/distr/stampa London ; New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1968
Descrizione fisica vii, 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Soggetto topico Supernovae
Classificazione 52.9.536
523.8'446
QB895
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNISALENTO-991001280549707536
Shklovskii, Iosef Shmuelovich  
London ; New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1968
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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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Supernovae and nucleosynthesis : an investigation of the history of matter, from the big bang to the present / David Arnett
Supernovae and nucleosynthesis : an investigation of the history of matter, from the big bang to the present / David Arnett
Autore Arnett, David
Pubbl/distr/stampa Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996
Descrizione fisica xviii, 598 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Disciplina 523.1
Collana Princeton series in astrophysics
Soggetto topico Cosmology
Stars - Evolution
Supernovae
Nucleosynthesis
Nuclear astrophysics
ISBN 0691011486 (alk. paper)
0691011478 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Classificazione LC QB981
52.9.532
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNISALENTO-991000165579707536
Arnett, David  
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996
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