Stellar Remnants: White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes 241 8.1 White Dwarfs 242 General Properties, Origin, and Fate 242 Structure of White Dwarfs 243 Degeneracy and the Chandrasekhar Limit 244 White Dwarfs in Binary Systems: Novas and Supernovas of Type I 245
8.2 Neutron Stars 246 General Properties and Origin 246 Pulsars and the Discovery of Neutron Stars 247 Emission from Neutron Stars 249 X-Ray Binary Stars 252
8.3 Black Holes 253 The Formation of Black Holes 255 Observing Black Holes 255 Gravitational Waves from Double Compact Stars 256 Hawking Radiation 257
Overview 4 The Milky Way and Other Galaxies 261 |