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X-ray astronomy is the best on hand window on astrophysical compact items: black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs. within the final ten years new observational possibilities have ended in an explosion of information during this box. This ebook offers a accomplished evaluate of the astrophysics of compact items that emit X-rays. 16 chapters written by means of the most important specialists within the box disguise the observations and the astrophysical interpretation of those items. issues lined contain binary structures, gamma ray burst resources, gentle gamma ray repeaters, anomalous X-ray pulsars, super-soft resources, and enigmatic quick X-ray transients.
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2 M can be derived (Rhoades & Ruffini 1983). The three assumptions are: (i) the star is non-rotating; (ii) the equation of state at densities below some fiducial value (typically close to the nuclear saturation density) is known; (iii) the speed of sound at larger densities is smaller than the speed of light (the so-called “causality” condition). Including the effects of rotation introduces only small corrections and affects the limiting mass by <20% (Friedman & Ipser 1987). The next two assumptions, however, are significantly more constraining.
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