Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
Neutron Stars: An Overview | |
Formation | |
Neutron Star Physical Parameters | |
Structure of the Envelope and the Interior | |
Production of High-Energy Radiation from Magnetized Neutron Stars | |
Observations of High-Energy Radiation from Neutron Stars | |
Physics in a Strong Magnetic Field | |
Classical Motion of Charged Particles | |
The Onset of Quantum Effects in a Strong Magnetic Field | |
Quantum Treatment of the Electron in a Magnetic Field | |
Atomic Structure in a Strong Magnetic Field | |
Classical Electrodynamics in the Weak-Field Limit | |
Quantum Electrodynamics in Strong Fields | |
Magnetized Plasma Response Properties | |
Classical Wave Propagation in a Magnetized Plasma | |
Normal Modes of the Cold Magnetized Plasma | |
Quantum Mechanical Derivation of the Dielectric Tensor | |
Vacuum Polarizability Effects in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas | |
Thermal and Quantum Effects in the Nonrelativistic Limit | |
Validity of the Normal Mode Description | |
Magnetized Radiative Processes: Nonrelativistic Limit | |
The Radiation Process in an External Field | |
Electron Scattering in a Cold Plasma | |
Compton Scattering in a Hot Plasma | |
The Coulomb and Bremsstrahlung Processes | |
Relativistic Radiation Processes | |
Relativistic Cross Sections and Rates | |
Relativistic Redistribution Functions | |
Relativistic Wave Propagation | |
Synchrotron Radiation | |
Magnetic Pair Production and Annihilation | |
Other Magnetic Effects | |
Radiation Transport in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas | |
The Transport Equation | |
Approximate Solutions of the Polarized Transfer Equations | |
Numerical Treatments of the Transport Equation | |
Magnetic Comptonization Effects | |
Nonlinearities in Radiation Transport | |
Accreting X-Ray Pulsars | |
Observational Overview | |
Accretion Flow and Magnetosphere Models | |
The Accretion Column: Dynamics and Geometry | |
Negligible Radiation Pressure Models | |
Models with Radiation Pressure | |
Spectrum and Pulse Shape Models | |
Rotation-powered Pulsars | |
Observational Overview | |
The Standard Magnetic Dipole Model | |
Polar Cap Models | |
Gamma-Ray Bursters | |
Observational Overview | |
Gamma-Ray Burster Models and Energetics | |
Spectrum Formation in GRBs | |
Super-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources | |
Observational Overview | |
Models of VHE-UHE Gamma-Ray Sources | |
Evolution of Neutron Stars | |
Stellar Evolution of Neutron Star Systems | |
Thermal Evolution of Neutron Stars | |
Rotational Evolution of Neutron Stars | |
Magnetic Evolution of Neutron Stars | |
Relativistic Electron Wave Functions and Currents | |
Tables | |
References | |
Index | |
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