ASTROPHYSICS IN THE XXI CENTURY WITH COMPACT STARS

There are reasons to believe the 21st century will be the best ever for astrophysics: the James Webb Space Telescope will extend nearly twenty times the present observational limit of visible light; neutrino massiveness opens a new window for exploration on dark energy and dark matter physics and is expected to provide insights into the fate of the Universe; the Higgs boson may allow for an understanding of the weakness of gravity; gravitational waves produced at the birth of the Universe and by compact stellar objects (supermassive black holes, black hole/neutron star mergers, gamma-ray bursts, white dwarf inspirals) have unveiled a new area of astronomy. Against this background, compact stars, the theme of this volume, present unique astrophysical laboratories for probing the fabric of space-time and the building blocks of matter and their interactions at physical regimes not attainable in terrestrial laboratories.

Contents:
Birth Events, Masses and the Maximum Mass of Compact Stars (Jorge E Horvath, Livia S Rocha, Antonio L C Bernando, Marcio G B de Avellar and Rodolfo Valentim)The Micro-physics of the Quark-nova: Recent Developments (Rachid Ouyed)Astrophysics of Super-dense Matter: A Strangeon Conjecture (Chengjun Xia, Xiaoyu Lai and Renxin Xu)Fast-spinning and Highly Magnetized White Dwarfs (Edson Otoniel, Jaziel G Coelho, Manuel Malheiro and Fridolin Weber)Hyperonization in Compact Stars (Armen Sedrakian, Jia-Jie Li and Fridolin Weber)Learning from the Frequency Content of Continuous Gravitational Wave Signals (David Ian Jones)Insights Into the Physics of Neutron Star Interiors from Pulsar Glitches (Marco Antonelli, Alessandro Montoli and Pierre M Pizzochero)Effects of a Strong Phase Transition on Supernova Explosions, Compact Stars and Their Mergers (Andreas Bauswein, David B Blaschke and Tobias Fischer)
Readership: Graduate students and researchers in astrophysics and high energy physics.

Key Features:
Chapters written by experts in the field