High Energy Phenomena Around Collapsed Stars

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Stellar Evolution and the Formation of Neutron Stars in Binary Systems....Pages 1-32
Observations of Supernovae....Pages 33-49
The Dynamics of Supernova Envelopes....Pages 51-71
Stellar Collapse and Supernova Explosions....Pages 73-104
White Dwarfs vs. Neutron Stars: Properties, Constraints, and Analogies....Pages 105-120
Observations of Pulsars....Pages 121-143
Energetic Radiation from Magnetized Neutron Stars....Pages 145-191
Neutron Stars as Cosmic Hadron Physics Laboratories....Pages 193-208
Recent Developments on the Crab Nebula....Pages 209-221
Radio Supernovae....Pages 223-234
On the Association between Supernova Remnants and Pulsars....Pages 235-242
The Progenitors and Products of Supernovae....Pages 243-259
Plerions in Theory and in Practice....Pages 261-270
The Binary Origin of Pulsar Velocities....Pages 271-278
Black Holes in our Galaxy....Pages 279-296
“Gamma — Ray Sources in our Galaxy”....Pages 297-316
Cosmic Gamma Ray Bursts....Pages 317-330
Galactic Cosmic Rays: Propagation and Origin....Pages 331-358
Quasiperiodic Oscillations in Galactic Pulge Sources: Information on the Boundary Layer from Power Spectra....Pages 359-366
The 35-Day Cycle of Her X-1....Pages 367-368