Stellar Remnants

Contents: White Dwarfs (S.D. Kawaler): Introduction.- Observed Properties of White Dwarfs.- Physics of White Dwarf Interiors.- White Dwarf Formation and Early Cooling.- Chemical Evolution of White Dwarfs.- White Dwarf Cooling and the White Dwarf Luminosity Function.- Nonradial Oscillations of White Dwarfs: Theory.- Pulsating White Dwarfs.- Astrophysical Applications of White Dwarfs. Neutron Stars (G. Srinivasan): A Historical Introduction.- The Nature of Pulsars.- The Physics of Neutron Stars.- The Progenitors of Neutron Stars.- Binary Pulsars.- Millisecond Pulsars.- Magnetic Field Evolution.- Glitches.- Plate Tectonics. Black Holes (I. Novikov): Astrophysics of Black Holes.- A Nonrotating Black Hole.- A Rotating Black Hole.- Electromagnetic Fields Near a Black Hole.- Some Aspects of Physics of Black Holes, Wormholes, and Time Machines.- Observational Appearance of the Black Holes in the Universe.- Primordial Black Holes.- Acknowledgements.- References.