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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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1985 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Harvard Books on Astronomy ;
11 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (201 p.) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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