A4 · Compact objects
A 32-module path through a4 · compact objects, in study order from foundations to the frontier.
Modules
- Electron Degeneracy Pressure
- White Dwarfs
- Chandrasekhar Mass Limit
- White Dwarf Cooling and Crystallization
- Neutron Stars
- Equation of State of Dense Matter
- Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff Equation
- Neutron Star Structure and Interior
- Pulsars
- Pulsar Magnetospheres and Spin-Down
- Millisecond and Recycled Pulsars
- Magnetars
- Pulsar Glitches and Neutron Star Superfluidity
- Stellar-Mass Black Holes
- Schwarzschild and Kerr Black Holes
- Innermost Stable Circular Orbit
- Accretion Disks
- Shakura–Sunyaev Alpha Disk Model
- Eddington Luminosity Limit
- Bondi Accretion
- X-ray Binaries
- Roche-Lobe Overflow and Mass Transfer
- Type I X-ray Bursts
- Quasi-Periodic Oscillations
- Relativistic Jets from Compact Objects
- Black Hole Spin Measurement
- Compact Binary Formation and Evolution
- Gravitational Waves from Compact Binaries
- Compact Binary Coalescence Waveforms
- Kilonovae and Neutron Star Mergers
- Multi-Messenger Astronomy of Compact Objects
- Tidal Deformability of Neutron Stars