Download or read book Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Surface to the Interior written by Silvia Zane and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collation of the contributions presented at a major conference on isolated neutron stars held in London in April 2006. Forty years after the discovery of radio pulsars it presents an up-to-date description of the new vision of isolated neutron stars that has emerged in recent years. The great variety of isolated neutron stars, from pulsars to magnetars, is well covered by descriptions of recent observational results and presentations of the latest theoretical interpretation of these data.