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Black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars by Saul A. Teukolsky, Stuart L. Shapiro

Black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars Saul A. Teukolsky, Stuart L. Shapiro ebook
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN: 0471873179, 9780471873174
Format: djvu
Page: 653

We call this type of explosion a "Type Ia supernova" ("Type Ia" is a historical moniker from before we understood what was exploding), and the supernova completely obliterates the white dwarf. Vocabulary to remember: nebula, protostar, hydrostatic equilibrium, thermonuclear reaction, main-sequence star, red giant, supernova, black holes, white dwarf, neutron star. Short duration gamma-ray bursts are thought to be caused by the merger of some combination of white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes. Possible MACHOs include faint white dwarfs, neutron stars, isolated black holes, and substellar objects such as brown dwarfs or free floating giant planets. Royal Astronomical Society that suggest that two “compact stellar remnants” — which could be neutron stars, black holes or white dwarfs — collided and merged, resulting in a short-duration gamma-ray burst that hit Earth. It is thus an ideal technique to study the galactic population of such faint or dark objects as brown dwarfs, red dwarfs, planets, white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, and Massive Compact Halo Objects. Sources of gravitational waves could possibly include binary star systems composed of white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes. €�This tell-tale signal, called a quasi-periodic oscillation or QPO, is a characteristic feature of the accretion disks that often surround the most compact objects in the universe — white dwarf stars, neutron stars and black holes. In addition, many binary systems can have compact components and can exist in a variety of ways. In our case, the processes of energy generation and conversion are particularly complicated because of the exotic nature of black holes. If it is more massive than that about 8 solar masses the star will go supernova and leave behind a neutron star, or if massive enough a black hole. An artist's impression of the merger of two neutron stars. They suggest that two compact stellar remnants – black holes, neutron stars or white dwarfs – collided and merged together.