Synopses & Reviews
Review
"...a concise and relatively thorough review of the observational characteristics of pulsars....an important contribution to the literature and will be an essential addition to the libraries of all those active in either observations or modeling of pulsars." Donald B. Melrose, Science"This book will be of interest to the tiny community of theoretical physicists interested in the difficult task of constructing an adequate theory of the radio emission from rotation-powered pulsars. It is exemplary in its attempt to explain in full detail the authors' own attempt to construct such a theory and compare it to observation." Jonathan Arons, Physics Today
Table of Contents
Introduction; List of notation; Constants and quantities; 1. Basic observational characteristics of radio pulsars; 2. Neutron stars; 3. Physical processes in the pulsar magnetosphere; 4. Electrodynamics of the pulsar magnetosphere; 5. Generation of electron-positron plasma in the pulsar magnetosphere; 6. Pulsar radio emission; 7. Comparison of theory with observational data; Conclusion; Appendix; References; Additional literature; Author index; Subject index.