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Tucker, Wallace / Giacconi, Riccardo

The X-Ray Universe

Series:Harvard Books on Astronomy

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Reprint 2014
Publication Date:
April 2014
Copyright year:
1985
ISBN
978-0-674-59444-9
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Frontmatter

Pages i-vi

Preface

Pages vii-VIII

Contents

Pages ix-XII

1. The X-Ray Universe

Pages 1-4

2. The Sensible World

Pages 5-10

3. Precursors

Pages 11-18

4. Pioneers

Pages 19-30

5. The Discovery of an X–Ray Star

Pages 31-45

6. The Riddle of the X-Ray Stars

Pages 46-62

7. Uhuru: Neutron Stars and Black Holes

Pages 63-90

8. The X–Ray Sky

Pages 91-102

9. A Telescope for X-Rays

Pages 103-131

10. Einstein into Orbit

Pages 132-135

11. First Light

Pages 136-141

12. Stellar Coronas and Supernovas

Pages 142-154

13. Active Galaxies and Quasars

Pages 155-168

14. Clusters of Galaxies and the Missing Mass

Pages 169-178

15. The Cosmic X-Ray Background

Pages 179-183

Coda

Pages 184-186

Bibliographical Notes

Pages 187-193

Index

Pages 194-208

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