Overview
Syllabus
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Neutron Stars and Black Holes Lecture - 8: Maximum mass of Neutron Stars
Lev Landau
Landau invents neutron stars in 1938
Neutronization of matter at high density
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The maximum mass of neutron stars
A fully relativistic WD has no radius! But it has a unique mass!
The Maximum Mass for Neutron Stars
Tolman, Oppenheimer, Volkoff equation
Oppenheimer - Volkoff Equation of State
Oppenheimer and Volkoff, 1938
Limiting Mass for Neutron Stars
Ideal Fermi Gas
Why are there only two classes of 'cold stars'?
Stability of Matter
HW: Harrison - Wheeler Equation of State OV: Oppenheimer - Volkoff Equation of State
Minimum mass of neutron stars
Why is there a minimum mass?!
There are only two types of cold stars in nature!
Upper limit to the mass
Uniformly rotating stars
Exotic states near the centre?
Bose - Einstein Statistics
Bose-Einstein Condensation
Degenerate Bose Gas
Bose-Einstein Distribution
Quark - Gluon soup?!
Gravitational Mass versus Central Density.
Harland Snyder - a very special student!
Implosion of a star in General Relativity
The implosion of a star
Inside the Black Hole?
Next Lecture - Neutron stars in Binary Systems
Q&A
Taught by
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences