Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Accreting neutron stars and black holes: a decade of discoveries
- 2 Rapid X-ray variability
- 3 New views of thermonuclear bursts
- 4 Black hole binaries
- 5 Optical, ultraviolet and infrared observations of X-ray binaries
- 6 Fast X-ray transients and X-ray flashes
- 7 Isolated neutron stars
- 8 Globular cluster X-ray sources
- 9 Jets from X-ray binaries
- 10 X-rays from cataclysmic variables
- 11 Super-soft sources
- 12 Compact steller X-ray sources in normal galaxies
- 13 Accretion in compact binaries
- 14 Soft gamma repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars: magnetar candidates
- 15 Cosmic gamma-ray bursts, their afterglows, and their host galaxies
- 16 Formation and evolution of compact stellar X-ray sources
- Author index
- Subject index
Subject index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Accreting neutron stars and black holes: a decade of discoveries
- 2 Rapid X-ray variability
- 3 New views of thermonuclear bursts
- 4 Black hole binaries
- 5 Optical, ultraviolet and infrared observations of X-ray binaries
- 6 Fast X-ray transients and X-ray flashes
- 7 Isolated neutron stars
- 8 Globular cluster X-ray sources
- 9 Jets from X-ray binaries
- 10 X-rays from cataclysmic variables
- 11 Super-soft sources
- 12 Compact steller X-ray sources in normal galaxies
- 13 Accretion in compact binaries
- 14 Soft gamma repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars: magnetar candidates
- 15 Cosmic gamma-ray bursts, their afterglows, and their host galaxies
- 16 Formation and evolution of compact stellar X-ray sources
- Author index
- Subject index
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- Compact Stellar X-ray Sources , pp. 681 - 690Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006