02693nam a22004695i 4500 978-0-387-76562-4 DE-He213 20260521091956.0 cr nn 008mamaa 100301s2008 xxu| s |||| 0|eng d 9780387765624 99780387765624 10.1007/978-0-387-76562-4 doi CICY 520 23 McNamara, Geoff. author. Clocks in the Sky [recurso electrónico] : The Story of Pulsars / by Geoff McNamara. New York, NY : Praxis, 2008. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia recurso en línea cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Springer Praxis Books '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'. 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. SCIENCE (GENERAL). ASTRONOMY. RELATIVITY (PHYSICS). POPULAR SCIENCE. POPULAR SCIENCE IN ASTRONOMY. ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY. ASTRONOMY. RELATIVITY AND COSMOLOGY. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer eBooks Printed edition: 9780387765600 Springer Praxis Books http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76562-4 Ver el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY ddc ER 34732 34732 0 0 ddc 0 0 LE CICY CICY EL 2025-07-10 0 520 2025-07-10 08:40:24 2025-07-10 ER