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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
Page: 653
Format: djvu
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

An exhausted star will evolve into a neutron star, a black hole or a white dwarf – depending on its mass. Short duration gamma-ray bursts are thought to be caused by the merger of some combination of white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes. A star undergoes many radical changes throughout its lifespan including the inevitable exhaustion of its fuel source. When stars die, the distribution of remnant masses would be expected to be continuous from white dwarfs through neutron stars to black holes, ranging from a fraction of our sun's mass to nearly 100 solar masses. They suggest that two compact stellar remnants, i.e., black holes, neutron stars, or white dwarfs, collided and merged together. "If they are part of a binary system, stellar remnants such as white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes may accrete matter from their companion and, in the process, shine brightly in X-rays. The connected arrow goes to the left because their X-ray luminosities could be 2x10^30 erg/s or lower). White dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes, X-ray pulsars you name it and this book has it. €�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. The white dwarf-neutron star final remnant consists of a cold neutron star core with a hot mantle on top. An artist's impression of the merger of two neutron stars. 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. In all it gives This is an exciting account about binary stars and the way black holes, white dwarfs, and neutron stars can evolve in them. Sources of gravitational waves could possibly include binary star systems composed of white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes.