TABLE OF CONTENTS, NUMBER OF PAGES 18
(1) Basic things about a star,
(2) Red Giant Stars
(3) White dwarfs
(4) Structure of white dwarf,
(5) What is a
... [Show More] white dwarf made of?
(6) How long can a white dwarf live?
(7) Neutron stars,
(8) Neutron star structure,
(9) Discovery of pulsars,
(10)Where are pulsars most likely to be found?
(11)Why do pulsars spin so fast?
(12)What is the temperature of a pulsar?
(13)Are any pulsars visible from Earth?
(14)Magnetic field of pulsars,
(15)Pulse timing of pulsars,
(16)How do pulsars pulsate?
(17)What is the pulsar timing method?
(18)The utility of pulsars,
(19)What do pulsars produce?
(20)Gravitational waves,
(21)What creates gravitational waves?
(22)What happens when gravitational waves hit Earth?
(23)Most Common Type of Star,
(24)Protostar definition,
(25) “T” Tauri Star definition,
(26)Main Sequence Stars,
(27)Blue Stars definition,
(28)Red Dwarf Star,
(29)Yellow Dwarfs,
(30)Orange Dwarfs,
(31)Supergiant Stars,
(32)Blue Giants,
(33)Blue Supergiants,
(34)Black Holes,
(35)Our galaxy Milky Way,
(36)What's beyond the universe?
(37)The Chandrasekhar limit,
(38)Explanation for Chandrasekhar Limit,
(39)Application of Chandrasekhar Limit,
(40)Chandrasekhar Unit,
(41)The Chandrasekhar limit for a neutron star,
(42)Frequently Asked Questions – FAQs,
Reference Books
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• Accretion Power in Astrophysics (Cambridge Astrophysics) Hardcover – 17 Jan. 2002 by Juhan Frank, Andrew King, Derek Raine. CUP
† Carroll, B.W. & Ostlie, D.A. An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (Addison-Wesley) 2017
Goldstein Classical Mechanics, Addison-Wesley (2nd edition 1980)
† Binney, J. & Tremaine, S.D. Galactic Dynamics, Princeton University Press (2008). Landau & Lifshitz Mechanics, Pergamon (3rd edition 1976, reprinted 1994).
† Binney, J. & Merrifield, M. Galactic Astronomy, Princeton University Press (1998).
Sparke, L.D. & Gallagher, J.S. Galaxies in the Universe - An Introduction CUP (2000) (ISBN 0-521-59740-4) [Show Less]