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
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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