Neutron stars make themselves known by their spin. They create a huge magnetic dynamo that powers the emissions seen in X-rays and gamma-rays. The result is a pulsar or magnetar. The Crab Nebula is a classic example of these amazing objects. They can do similar things as we saw with novae but with much more extreme results: the kilonovae. Neutron stars make themselves known by their spin. They create a huge magnetic dynamo that powers the emissions seen in X-rays and gamma-rays. They can also do similar things as we saw with novae but with more extreme results.

Supplement the videos with "OpenStax Astronomy"
https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/...
23: The Death of Stars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilonova
Kilonova

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron...
Neutron Stars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular...
Conservation of Angular Momentum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsar
Pulsars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar
Magnetars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_(...)
Telsa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell

https://phys.org/news/2015-02-nuclear...
Nuclear pasta may offer insight into the strange world of neutron stars

https://astrobites.org/2017/10/05/nuc...
Nuclear Pasta in Neutron Stars

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.03646.pdf
Astromaterial Science and Nuclear Pasta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Pu...
The Crab Pulsar

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/arch...
Hubble's View of the Crab Pulsar

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002...
Space Movie Reveals Shocking Secrets of the Crab Pulsar

http://www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/...
Vela Pulsar Jet: New Chandra Movie Features Neutron Star Action

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ch...
Vela Pulsar

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ch...
New Chandra Movie Features Neutron Star Action

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_b...
X-ray burster

http://www2011.mpe.mpg.de/heg/www/HEG...
Image

This is part of an entire online introductory college course. This video series was used at William Paterson University and CUNY Hunter in online classes as well as to supplement course material. Notes and links are in the videos at the start of each lecture. In this lecture series, I talk about the end states of stars. The amazing white dwarfs and neutron stars. White Dwarfs are fascinating end states of Solar-mass (or slightly bigger) stars. Sirius "b" is among the closest known and we know many things about these oddball planet-sized stars from the Dog Star's dog. Next, if we combine the common nature of white dwarfs and the fact that most stars are in binary (or more) systems, then we can see that as stars die, they can interact. Novae and Type 1a supernovae are the result. White dwarf stars can cause sudden outbursts called novae and even do a special supernova. Then we go to some of the most amazing objects in the universe that are still things are neutron stars. Often looked at in astronomy as the thing on the way to black holes, neutron stars are the most extreme objects in the universe composed of what we might still call normal matter. Black holes are another thing. These boundary objects have wild properties and have extreme effects on their surroundings. Forged in the instantaneous fire of a core-collapse supernova, they are awesome objects. Finally, neutron stars make themselves known by their spin. They create a huge magnetic dynamo that powers the emissions seen in X-rays and gamma-rays. The result is a pulsar or magnetar. The Crab Nebula is a classic example of these amazing objects. They can do similar things as we saw with novae but with much more extreme results: the kilonovae.

0:00 Introduction
1:17 Pulsars: Accidental Discovery in 1967
6:57 Pulsar "Lighthouse" Model
12:04 Pulsar Evolution
17:48 The Crab Nebula in History
21:14 Many Wavelength Crab
22:22 The Crab by Chandra X-Ray Observatory
25:33 Recent Hubble image of M1
29:50 Vela Pulsar by Chandra
32:12 Binary Neutron Stars
35:03 X-ray binary spinning up a neutron star
38:11 Colliding Neutron Stars
39:50 Over the Top?
40:57 REVIEW QUESTIONS