The X-Ray Universe / / Wallace Tucker, Riccardo Giacconi.
Beyond the range of optical perception--and of ordinary imaginings--a new and violent universe lay undetected until the advent of space exploration. Supernovae, black holes, quasars and pulsars--these were the secrets of the highenergy world revealed when, for the first time, astronomers attached th...
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Tucker, Wallace, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The X-Ray Universe / Wallace Tucker, Riccardo Giacconi. Reprint 2014 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©1985 1 online resource (201 p.) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Harvard Books on Astronomy ; 11 Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. The X-Ray Universe -- 2. The Sensible World -- 3. Precursors -- 4. Pioneers -- 5. The Discovery of an X–Ray Star -- 6. The Riddle of the X-Ray Stars -- 7. Uhuru: Neutron Stars and Black Holes -- 8. The X–Ray Sky -- 9. A Telescope for X-Rays -- 10. Einstein into Orbit -- 11. First Light -- 12. Stellar Coronas and Supernovas -- 13. Active Galaxies and Quasars -- 14. Clusters of Galaxies and the Missing Mass -- 15. The Cosmic X-Ray Background -- Coda -- Bibliographical Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Beyond the range of optical perception--and of ordinary imaginings--a new and violent universe lay undetected until the advent of space exploration. Supernovae, black holes, quasars and pulsars--these were the secrets of the highenergy world revealed when, for the first time, astronomers attached their instruments to rockets and lofted them beyond the earth's x-ray-absorbing atmosphere. The X-Ray Universe is the story of these explorations and the fantastic new science they brought into being. It is a first-hand account: Riccardo Giacconi is one of the principal pioneers of the field, and Wallace Tucker is a theorist who worked closely with him at many critical periods. The book carries the reader from the early days of the Naval Research Laboratory through the era of V-2 rocketry, Sputnik, and the birth of NASA, to the launching of the Einstein X-Ray Observatory. But this is by no means just a history. Behind the suspenseful, sometimes humorous details of human personality grappling with high technology lies a sophisticated exposition of current cosmology and astrophysics, from the rise and fall of the steady-state theory to the search for the missing mass of the universe. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Astronomia. Astronomie des rayons X. Astronomie, Kartografie. Röntgenastronomie. X-ray astronomy. SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics. SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Giacconi, Riccardo, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Science eBook Package 9783110353549 ZDB-23-HSP Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674594432 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674594449 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674594449 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674594449.jpg |
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