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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
ISBN: 0471873179, 9780471873174
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format: djvu
Page: 653

Shows the central region of our Milky Way galaxy, only about 25,000 light years from Earth, revealing hundreds of white dwarf stars, neutron stars, and black holes bathed in an incandescent fog of multimillion-degree gas. An exhausted star will evolve into a neutron star, a black hole or a white dwarf – depending on its mass. A journey of simulations of Black Holes, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs and Space and Time. Short duration gamma-ray bursts are thought to be caused by the merger of some combination of white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes. The white dwarf-neutron star final remnant consists of a cold neutron star core with a hot mantle on top. In addition, many binary systems can have compact components and can exist in a variety of ways. They are much more dense than white dwarfs. €�White dwarf/neutron star or black hole binaries are thought to be quite rare, although there is a huge range in the number per Milky Way-like galaxy in the literature. In between black holes and white dwarfs are objects called neutron stars. The trio would thereby be sensitive to the gravitational waves produced by small, dense objects orbiting one another, objects like white dwarfs, neutron stars and, most excitingly, black holes. It's funny, because the more wacky combinations of stars and compact object (white dwarf, neutron star, or black hole) we find or imagine, the more remarkable evolutionary scenarios astronomers can conceive of playing out. It finds a sea of hot gas enveloping thousands of white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes. The 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. One spoonful of a neutron star would weigh about 1 billion tons. Though, it is only a simulation, nothing more. This includes white dwarf stars, neutron stars and black holes. Chandra also finds regions aglow with the light of massive young stars. An artist's impression of the merger of two neutron stars. Vocabulary to remember: nebula, protostar, hydrostatic equilibrium, thermonuclear reaction, main-sequence star, red giant, supernova, black holes, white dwarf, neutron star. A star undergoes many radical changes throughout its lifespan including the inevitable exhaustion of its fuel source. In our case, the processes of energy generation and conversion are particularly complicated because of the exotic nature of black holes.