Compact Objects

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For compact objects the basic references are the following:

S.L. Shapiro, S.A. Teukolsky, 1983: Black Holes, White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars, J. Wiley (New York)

N.K. Glendenning, 2000: Compact Stars, Springer-Verlag, 2nd Edition

M. Camenzind, 2004: Astrophysics of Compact Objects, LSW (Heidelberg)

Exploring Black Holes, 2000, E.F. Taylor & J.A. Wheeler, Pearson Education

Some lecture notes on the web:

Bussink, Eerten, Friedel & Glebbeek: Compact Objects

Valeria Ferrari: From Gas Clouds to Compact Objects

Valeria Ferrari: Neutron Stars

Verbunt, Heise: Neutron Stars

Omar Benhar: Physics of Dense Matter

Jaffe: Degenerate Fermion Systems

Kutschera: Neutron Stars: Formation and Structure

Lattimer: Stars, lecture notes

G. Collins II: Fundamentals of  Stellar Astrophysics

Sagert, Hempel, Greiner, Schaffner-Bielich: Compact Stars for Undergraduates

Silbar, Reddy,  Neutron Stars for Undergraduates

Gordon Baym, Frederick K. Lamb: Neutron Stars

Jon Bell: Tutorial on Radio Pulsars

Ramesh Narayan: Black Holes in Astrophysics,

Neven Bilic: Black Hole Phenomenology


Scott A. Hughes: Test but Verify: The Case for Astrophysical Black Holes

Ziolkowski: Black Hole Candidates

P.K. Townsend: Black Holes

Clifford M. Will: Confrontation Between GR and Experiment / Living Reviews in Relativity

Baez & Bunn: The Meaning of Einstein's Equation


Wikipedia Readings

1- Time line of WD, NSs and SNe
2- Time line of black hole physics
3- Time line of stellar astronomy
4- Compact Star (and you will find links to all of them)
5- Chandrasekhar limit
6- Degenerate matter
7- Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit
8- Crab Nebula
9- General Relativity
10-Tests of General Relativity
11-Alternatives to General Relativity

Nobel Lectures

1974, Antony Hewish: Pulsars and High Density Physics
1983, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: On Stars, Their Evolution and Their Stability
1993, Joseph H. Taylor: Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity
1993, Russel A. Hulse: The Discovery of the Binary Pulsar
2002, Riccardo Giacconi: The Dawn of X-ray Astronomy

Cool Links


Estimating the Chandrasekhar limit
Introduction to Neutron Stars by Coleman Miller

Virtual Trips to Black Holes and Neutron Stars by Robert Nemiroff (Michigan Technological University)
Black Holes and beyond
Geometry Around Black Holes by Michael Cramer Andersen
The Sounds of Pulsars



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