Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics

ISBN-13: 9780750303323 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 696 str.

Fritz W. Weber; F. Weber; Fridolin Weber

Opis

An account of our understanding of the behaviour of hot dense matter in the Universe. The first part of the text derives the nuclear equations of state of neutron star matter in the framework of relativistic field theory. The second part constructs models of rapidly rotating neutron stars (pulsars) in the framework of general relativity theory using the equations of state derived earlier as input data. Predictions from these models are then compared with astrophysical observations.

Recenzje

"A remarkable reference work covering an enormous range of material from astrophysics to nuclear and particle physics in an interesting and accessible manner. This is a very important contribution to the literature."
-Anthony W. Thomas, University of Adelaide, Australia

Spis treści

Introduction. Overview of relativistic stars. Observed neutron star properties. Physics of neutron star matter. Relativistic field-theoretical description of neutron star matter. Spectral representation of two-point Green function. Dense matter in relativistic Hartree and Hartree-Fock. Quark-hadron phase transition. Ladder approximation in self-consistent baryon-antibaryon basis. Matrix elements of one-boson-exchange potentials. Partial-wave expansions. Dense matter in relativistic ladder approximation. Models for the equation of state. General relativity in a nutshell. Structure equations of non-rotating stars. Criteria for maximum rotation. Models of rotating neutron stars. Strage quark matter stars. Cooling of neutron and strange stars. Notation. Useful mathematical relationships. Hartree-Fock self-energies at zero temperature. Hartee-Fock self-energies at finite temperature. Helicity-state matrix elements of one-boson-exchange potential. Partial-wave expansion. Rotating stars in general relativity. Quark matter at finite temperature. Models of rotating relativistic neutron stars of selected masses. Equations of state in tabulated form. References.

O autorze

Fridolin Weber