Neutron Stars

[eratosthenes]

Hi all. I am currently writing my undergraduate thesis. It has to be
about one fairly specific topic relevant to contemporary physics, I
chose to write about neutron stars in the context of general
relativity and atomic physics.

I'm not having any trouble with finding any technical information and
I know the necessary math to have a reasonable understanding.
However, I am having a hell of a difficult time finding anything on
the history of neutron stars.

Does anyone know of any websites or books that I can look at?

Cheers -- Patrick

[PD]

Kip Thorne's book, Black Holes and Time Warps, spends a little time
talking about stellar evolution and gravitational collapse when it was
being worked on by Oppenheimer et al. That's where I would start.

PD

[Eric Gisse]

"Gravitation" - Misner, Thorne, Wheeler. Page 619.

>
> Cheers -- Patrick

[Sam Wormley]

Take a look at...

Straumann, "General Relativity With Applications to Astrophysics", Springer (2004), Ch 6
Cox, "Allen's Astrophysical Quantities", 4th ed, AIP Press (1999)
Lang, "Astrophysical Formulae Vol. I & II". Springer (1999)
Misner, Thorne & Wheeler, "Gravitation", Freeman (1973)
Schultz, "Gravity", Cambridge (2003), Ch 12

Introduction to neutron stars
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~miller/nstar.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star#References

[Uncle Al]

eratosthenes wrote:
>
> Hi all. I am currently writing my undergraduate thesis. It has to be
> about one fairly specific topic relevant to contemporary physics, I
> chose to write about neutron stars in the context of general
> relativity and atomic physics.

Google is your friend.

> I'm not having any trouble with finding any technical information and
> I know the necessary math to have a reasonable understanding.
> However, I am having a hell of a difficult time finding anything on
> the history of neutron stars.
>
> Does anyone know of any websites or books that I can look at?

Google
"neutron star" history

"In 1933, Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky proposed the existence of the
neutron star, only a year after Chadwick's discovery of the neutron."

"In 1965, Antony Hewish and Samuel Okoye discovered 'an unusual source
of high radio brightness temperature in the Crab Nebula.'"

"In 1967, Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish discovered regular radio
pulses from the location of the Hewish and Okoye radio source" -
pulsar.

Hewish got a Nobel Prize. Okoye and Bell got screwed (but not in the
good way).
--
Uncle Al
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http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2

[PD]

On Apr 2, 4:01 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
> eratosthenes wrote:
>
> > Hi all.  I am currently writing my undergraduate thesis.  It has to be
> > about one fairly specific topic relevant to contemporary physics, I
> > chose to write about neutron stars in the context of general
> > relativity and atomic physics.
>
> Google is your friend.
>
> > I'm not having any trouble with finding any technical information and
> > I know the necessary math to have a reasonable understanding.
> > However, I am having a hell of a difficult time finding anything on
> > the history of neutron stars.
>
> > Does anyone know of any websites or books that I can look at?
>
> Google
> "neutron star" history
>
> "In 1933, Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky proposed the existence of the
> neutron star, only a year after Chadwick's discovery of the neutron."

Zwicky in an interesting case because he had a reputation for being
able to come up with all the right answers for all the wrong reasons.

>
> "In 1965, Antony Hewish and Samuel Okoye discovered 'an unusual source
> of high radio brightness temperature in the Crab Nebula.'"
>
> "In 1967, Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish discovered regular radio
> pulses from the location of the Hewish and Okoye radio source" -
> pulsar.
>
> Hewish got a Nobel Prize.  Okoye and Bell got screwed (but not in the
> good way).
> --

> Uncle Alhttp://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/

[hanson]

Paul "PD" <TheDrap...@gmail.com> wrote:
Uncle Al <Uncle...@hate.spam.net> wrote:
[snip crap]

>
Paul Draper wrote:
Zwicky in an interesting case because he had a reputation for being
able to come up with all the right answers for all the wrong reasons.
>

hanson wrote:
... ahahahaha... Paul, that is one of the coolest 2-liners you ever
posted. To boot, it's a truism of considerable gravitas... because
it shows that theories are really nothing more then glorified stories,
including Einstein's tales.... ahahaha... TFTL... ahahahanson

[Autymn D. C.]

And I still shew Chandrasekhar was full of bullshit, unless someone
can prove me wrong: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:white_dwarf.

Beyond the neutròn star is the piòn star, and then the quark star, and
then the pentaquark star at last. Midway they show up as infrared
dwarfs, and the black hole is as fictional as the unicorn.

-Aut