The X-Ray Universe /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Tucker, Wallace,
Giacconi, Riccardo,
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

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