The Neutron Star-Black Hole Connection

Preface. List of Participants. 1: Radio Pulsars and Neutron Stars. Radio Pulsars - an Observer's Perspective; D.R. Lorimer. Neutron Star Birth Rates; D.R. Lorimer. Kinematics of Radio Pulsars; R. Ramachandran. Superfluid Dynamics and Energy Dissipation in Neutron Stars; M.A. Alpar. Magnetic Fields of Neutron Stars; S. Konar, D. Bhattacharya. 2: The Neutron Star - Black Hole Connection. Neutron Star and Black Hole Formation; C.L. Fryer. Coalescence Rates of Compact Objects; V. Kalogera. The Final Fate of Coalescing Compact Binaries: From Black Hole to Planet Formation; F.A. Rasio. 3: Accretion Discs. Accretion Discs; H.C. Spruit. Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Discs; H.C. Spruit. Inner Region of Accretion Flows onto Black Holes; M. Kafatos, P. Subramanian. 4: Neutron stars and Black Holes in Binaries. Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Binaries; E.P.J. van den Heuvel. Formation and Evolution of Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Binary Systems; E.P.J. van den Heuvel. Transient Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries in Quiescence; L. Bildsten, R.E. Rutledge. A Comparison of Radio Emission from Neutron Star and Black Hole X-ray Binaries; R.P. Fender. Black Hole and Neutron Star Jet Sources; I.F. Mirabel. Bulk-Flow Comptonization and Time Lags due to Comptonization; N.D. Kylafis, P. Reig. GRS 1915+105 as a Black Hole Accretion Disk Laboratory; T. Belloni. Weighing Black Holes with the Largest Optical Telescopes; E.T. Harlaftis, A.V. Filippenko. Physics of Plasma Outflows; S.V. Bogovalov, K. Tsinganos. Timing the Kilohertz Quasi-periodic Oscillations in Low-Mass Binaries; M. Méndez. Modeling the Time Variability of Black Hole Candidates; D.Kazanas. Relativistic Models of kHz QPOs; W. Kluźniak. Phenomenology of the 35-day Cycle of Hercules X-1; N.I. Shakura, et al. Spin-Orbit Couplings in X-ray Binaries; T.M. Tauris, G.J. Savonije. High Mass Black Holes in Soft X-ray Transients; G.E. Brown, et al. 5: Magnetars. The Anomalous X-ray Pulsars; S. Mereghetti. Astrophysics of the Soft Gamma Repeaters and the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars; C. Thompson. Neutron Star Envelopes and Thermal Radiation from the Magnetic Surface; J. Ventura, and A.Y. Potekhin. 6: Gamma-ray Bursts. Gamma-ray Bursts: History and Observations; G.J. Fishman. The Afterglow of Gamma-ray Bursts: Light on the Mystery; L. Piro. Gamma-ray Bursts and Afterglows: The Fireball Shock Model; P. Mészáros. Gamma-ray Bursts from Neutron Stars Spun up in X-ray Binaries; H.C. Spruit. 7: New Experiments. The Candra X-ray Observatory (CXO); M.C. Weisskopf.