1. Observations of compact star (CS) properties [pdf] 2. Equation of state for the CS crust [pdf] 3. Dense nuclear and quark matter in the CS interior 4. General relativistic CS structure 5. Neutrino processes and CS cooling 6. CS at birth: Supernovae and protoneutron stars 7. Gravitational wave signals and black hole formation

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Norman Glendenning: Compact Stars (Springer, 2000) Pawel Haensel et al.: Neutron Stars (Springer, 2007) Fridolin Weber: Pulsars as astrophysical laboratories for particle and nuclear physics (IoP Publishing, 1999) David Blaschke and David Sedrakian (Eds.): Superdense QCD matter and compact stars (Springer, 2006)