X-Ray Binaries and Recycled Pulsars -

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Résumé :
The motivation for the Workshop on which this book is based was the discovery in recent years of a large number of binary and millisecond radio pulsars, in the galactic disk as well as in globular star clusters, the oldest stellar systems in our galaxy. These discoveries have revolutionized our thinking on many aspects concerning the interior structure and evolution of neutron stars, and have revived the interest in the study of neutron star physics in general. In this book some three dozen of the world's experts in the field of radio pulsars, X-ray binaries, stellar evolution, neutron star interoirs and stellar dynamics review the latest observational discoveries as well as the current theoretical thinking on the formation and physics of binary X-ray sources and of the binary and millisecond pulsars. br/ These include discoveries such as that of the eleven millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae, the relativistic effects in the new double neutron star system PSR 1534+12 and spectacular results from Germany's ROSAT X-Ray Observatory. br/

Sommaire:
The orbital periods of low-mass X-ray binaries.- ROSAT - Early results.- Black holes in binary systems.- Recent results from GINGA on X-ray binaries: selected topics.- Z and Atoll sources as a clue to the evolution of low-mass X-ray binaries.- X-ray diagnostics of accretion disks.- SIGHT: A scintillation imaging gas-filled hard X-ray telescope.- Millisecond pulsars in globular clusters.- Recent observations of recycled pulsars.- Discovery of two millisecond pulsars at high Galactic latitudes.- Millisecond pulsars and quiescent LMXBs.- Continuum observations of recycled pulsars.- Millisecond pulsar spectra.- Searching for pulsars in globular clusters: the Parkes/Jodrell Bank surveys.- Discovery and timing of radio pulsars in globular clusters M13 and M15.- A new pulsar-supernova remnant association.- New pulsar proper motion results from Jodrell Bank.- The evolution of the optical remnant of Kepler's SN.- Accretion induced collapse.- Accretion-induced collapse of white dwarfs.- Some problems in the theory of isolated pulsars.- Relativistic shock waves and the excitation of plerions.- Neutrino driven neutron star formation.- Formation and evolution of neutron star binaries.- From low-mass X-ray binaries to binary and millisecond pulsars.- Common envelope evolution and formation of cataclysmic variables and low-mass X-ray binaries.- The common envelope evolution of massive stars.- The evolution of Her X-1 and why Her X-1 systems are very rare.- Collisions between a white dwarf and a main-sequence star.- New directions in globular cluster modeling.- Statistics of pulsars in globular clusters.- CVs in globular clusters: clues to compact binary production.- Evaporation of companions in VLMXBs and in binary millisecond pulsars.- Radiation-driven evolution of low-mass X-raybinaries and the formation of millisecond pulsars.- A new mechanism for angular momentum loss in very low-mass X-ray binaries and binary millisecond pulsars.- X-ray dippers, eclipsing pulsars and three-dimensional orbits.- From millisecond pulsars to low-mass X-ray binaries.- A determination of the radio-luminosity function and relative number of globular cluster pulsars.- Pulsar velocities and their origins.- Statistical studies of the local pulsar population.- Neutron star structure and superfluidity: a 1991 perspective.- Magnetic field evolution from neutron star crust breaking.- Diagnostics of disk-magnetosphere interaction in neutron star binaries.- Quasi Periodic Oscillations and Sound.- Experimental discovery of a tilt instability in standard accretion disks around luminous X-ray sources.- 6 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations from low-mass X-ray binaries: the sound of an accretion disk?.- Magnetic flares near black holes.- Concluding remarks.- Auhtors Index.- Object Index....