
Astrophysics In The Xxi Century With Compact Stars
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published on 19. December 2022
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-981-12-2093-7 (ISBN)
Description
There are reasons to believe the 21st century will be the best ever for astrophysics: the James Webb Space Telescope will extend nearly twenty times the present observational limit of visible light; neutrino massiveness opens a new window for exploration on dark energy and dark matter physics and is expected to provide insights into the fate of the Universe; the Higgs boson may allow for an understanding of the weakness of gravity; gravitational waves produced at the birth of the Universe and by compact stellar objects (supermassive black holes, black hole/neutron star mergers, gamma-ray bursts, white dwarf inspirals) have unveiled a new area of astronomy. Against this background, compact stars, the theme of this volume, present unique astrophysical laboratories for probing the fabric of space-time and the building blocks of matter and their interactions at physical regimes not attainable in terrestrial laboratories.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
664 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-12-2093-7 (9789811220937)
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Editor
Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul (Ufrgs), Brazil & International Center For Relativistic Astrophysics Network (Icranet), Italy
San Diego State Univ, Usa