About the Book
V. Trimble-Concluding remarks 541 Authors Index 549 Object Index 551 Subject Index 555 List of participants and observers Ali Alpar, M. , Physics Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Anderson, S. , USA California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA, Araya, R. A. , The Johns Hopkins University, Deptartment of Physics and Astronomy, Baltimore MD, USA Arons, J. , Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, USA Backer, D. , Department of Astronomy, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, USA Bailyn, C. D. , Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge MA, USA Bandiera, R. , Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy Banit, M. , Astrophysics Department, Columbia University, New York NY, USA Bhattacharya, D. , Astronomical Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Blandford, R. , Theoretical Astrophysics, CalTech, Pasadena CA, USA Blondin, J. M. , University of Virginia, Department of Astronomy, Charlottesville VA, USA Cernohorsky, J. , Center for High Energy Astrophysics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Chanmugam, G. , Louisiana State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ba- ton Rouge LA, USA Cordes, J.
, Cornell University Centre for Radiophysics & Space Research, Ithaca NY, USA Dewey, R. , Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech, Pasadena CA, USA Eardley, D. , University of California, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara CA,USA Edberg, T. , University of California, Center for Particle Astrophysics, Berkeley CA, USA Eggleton, P. P. , Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, United Kingdom Eichler, D.
Table of Contents:
The orbital periods of low-mass X-ray binaries.- ROSAT - Early results.- Black holes in binary systems.- Recent results from GINGA on X-ray binaries: selected topics.- Z and Atoll sources as a clue to the evolution of low-mass X-ray binaries.- X-ray diagnostics of accretion disks.- SIGHT: A scintillation imaging gas-filled hard X-ray telescope.- Millisecond pulsars in globular clusters.- Recent observations of recycled pulsars.- Discovery of two millisecond pulsars at high Galactic latitudes.- Millisecond pulsars and quiescent LMXBs.- Continuum observations of recycled pulsars.- Millisecond pulsar spectra.- Searching for pulsars in globular clusters: the Parkes/Jodrell Bank surveys.- Discovery and timing of radio pulsars in globular clusters M13 and M15.- A new pulsar-supernova remnant association.- New pulsar proper motion results from Jodrell Bank.- The evolution of the optical remnant of Kepler’s SN.- Accretion induced collapse.- Accretion-induced collapse of white dwarfs.- Some problems in the theory of isolated pulsars.- Relativistic shock waves and the excitation of plerions.- Neutrino driven neutron star formation.- Formation and evolution of neutron star binaries.- From low-mass X-ray binaries to binary and millisecond pulsars.- Common envelope evolution and formation of cataclysmic variables and low-mass X-ray binaries.- The common envelope evolution of massive stars.- The evolution of Her X-1 and why Her X-1 systems are very rare.- Collisions between a white dwarf and a main-sequence star.- New directions in globular cluster modeling.- Statistics of pulsars in globular clusters.- CVs in globular clusters: clues to compact binary production.- Evaporation of companions in VLMXBs and in binary millisecond pulsars.- Radiation-driven evolution of low-mass X-raybinaries and the formation of millisecond pulsars.- A new mechanism for angular momentum loss in very low-mass X-ray binaries and binary millisecond pulsars.- X-ray dippers, eclipsing pulsars and three-dimensional orbits.- From millisecond pulsars to low-mass X-ray binaries.- A determination of the radio-luminosity function and relative number of globular cluster pulsars.- Pulsar velocities and their origins.- Statistical studies of the local pulsar population.- Neutron star structure and superfluidity: a 1991 perspective.- Magnetic field evolution from neutron star crust breaking.- Diagnostics of disk-magnetosphere interaction in neutron star binaries.- Quasi Periodic Oscillations and Sound.- “Experimental” discovery of a tilt instability in standard accretion disks around luminous X-ray sources.- 6 Hz quasi-periodic oscillations from low-mass X-ray binaries: the sound of an accretion disk?.- Magnetic flares near black holes.- Concluding remarks.- Auhtors Index.- Object Index.
