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Author(s): J. Craig Wheeler
ISBN(s): 9780521857147, 0521857147
Edition: 2
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Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0521857147
ISBN 13: 9780521857147
Author: Craig Wheeler

From supernovae and gamma-ray bursts to the accelerating Universe, this is an exploration of the intellectual threads that lead to some of the most exciting ideas in modern astrophysics and cosmology. This fully updated second edition incorporates new material on binary stars, black holes, gamma-ray bursts, worm-holes, quantum gravity and string theory. It covers the origins of stars and their evolution, the mechanisms responsible for supernovae, and their progeny, neutron stars and black holes. It examines the theoretical ideas behind black holes and their manifestation in observational astronomy and presents neutron stars in all their variety known today. This book also covers the physics of the twentieth century, discussing quantum theory and Einstein’s gravity, how these two theories collide, and the prospects for their reconciliation in the twenty-first century. This will be essential reading for undergraduate students in astronomy and astrophysics, and an excellent, accessible introduction for a wider audience.
 

Cosmic catastrophes exploding stars black holes and mapping the Universe 2nd Edition Table of contents:

1.1 Introduction
1.2.1 The Basic Forces of Nature
1.2.2 Conservation Laws
1.2.3 The Energy of Stellar Contraction
1.2.4 Quantum Theory
1.3.1 Birth
1.3.2 The Main Sequence
1.3.3 The Solar-Neutrino Problem

2.1 Red Giants
2.2 Stellar Winds
2.3 Quantum Deregulation
2.4 Core Collapse
2.5 Transfiguration

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
3.7 Small Separation
3.8 Evolution of the Second Star
3.9 Common-Envelope Phase
3.10 Gravitational Radiation

4.1 The Third Object
4.2 How a Disk Forms
4.4 A Source of Friction
4.5 A Life of Its Own
4.6 Fat Centers? The DAF Zoo

5.1 Single White Dwarfs
5.2 Cataclysmic Variables
5.3 The Origin of Cataclysmic Variables
5.4 The Final Evolution of Cataclysmic Variables

6.1 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

7.1 The Large Magellanic Cloud Awakens
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

8.1 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

9.1 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
9.5.1 Curved Space and Black Holes
9.5.2 Black Holes and the Nature of Time
9.6.1 Quantum Event Horizons
9.6.2 A Two-Way Street
9.6.4 White Holes
9.7 Fundamental Properties of Black Holes
9.8 Inside Black Holes
9.8.2 Schwarzschild Black Holes
9.8.3 Kerr Black Holes

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

11.1 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

12.1 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

13.2 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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