Clocks in the sky the story of pulsars / [electronic resource] :
- 作者： McNamara, Geoff.
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- 出版： New York, NY : Praxis
- 叢書名： Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy
- 主題： Pulsars. , Popular Science in Astronomy. , Popular Science. , Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. , Relativity and Cosmology. , Astronomy
- ISBN： 9780387765624 (electronic bk.) 、 9780387765600 (paper)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
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- 系統號： 005032625 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
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.