The Zoo of Neutron Stars
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
In these lecture notes I briefly discuss the present day situation and new discoveries in astrophysics of neutron stars focusing on isolated objects. The latter include soft gamma repeaters, anomalous X-ray pulsars, central compact objects in supernova remnants, the Magnificent seven, and rotating radio transients. In the last part of the paper I describe available tests of cooling curves of neutron stars and discuss different additional constraints which can help to confront theoretical calculations of cooling with observational data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0610593,
title = {The Zoo of Neutron Stars},
author = {S. B. Popov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0610593},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages, no figures. To appear in the proceedings of the summer school "Dense Matter In Heavy Ion Collisions and Astrophysics" in a separate volume of Particles and Nuclei, Letters