Stellar Interiors [E-Book] : Physical Principles, Structure, and Evolution / by Carl J. Hansen, Steven D. Kawaler.
That trees should have been cut down to provide paper for this book was an ecological afIront. From a book review. - Anthony Blond (in the Spectator, 1983) The first modern text on our subject, Structure and Evolution of the Stars, was published over thirty years ago. In it, Martin Schwarzschild des...
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Personal Name(s): | Hansen, Carl J., author |
Kawaler, Steven D., author | |
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New York, NY :
Springer,
1994
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Physical Description: |
XIV, 446 p. online resource. |
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englisch |
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9781468402148 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4684-0214-8 |
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
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- 1 Preliminaries
- 1.1 Hydrostatic Equilibrium
- 1.2 An Energy Principle
- 1.3 The Virial Theorem and Its Applications
- 1.4 The Constant-Density Model
- 1.5 Energy Generation and Transport
- 1.6 Stellar Dimensional Analysis
- 1.7 Evolutionary Lifetimes on the Main Sequence
- 1.8 Exercises
- 1.9 References and Suggested Readings
- 2 An Overview of Stellar Evolution
- 2.1 Pre-Main Sequence Evolution
- 2.2 Single Stars On and Near the Main Sequence
- 2.3 Evolution of Single Stars Off the Main Sequence
- 2.4 Late Stages of Evolution
- 2.5 Evolution in Close Binary Systems
- 2.6 Special Kinds of Stars
- 2.7 Concluding Remarks
- 2.8 Exercises
- 2.9 References and Suggested Readings
- 3 Equations of State
- 3.1 Distribution Functions
- 3.2 Blackbody Radiation
- 3.3 Ideal Monatomic Gas
- 3.4 The Saha Equation
- 3.5 Fermi-Dirac Equations of State
- 3.6 “Almost Perfect” Equations of State
- 3.7 Adiabatic Exponents and Other Derivatives
- 3.8 Exercises
- 3.9 References and Suggested Readings
- 4 Radiative and Conductive Heat Transfer
- 4.1 Radiative Transfer
- 4.2 The Diffusion Equation
- 4.3 A Brief Diversion into “?’s”
- 4.4 Radiative Opacity Sources
- 4.5 Heat Transfer by Conduction
- 4.6 Tabulated Opacities
- 4.7 References and Suggested Readings
- 5 Heat Transfer by Convection
- 5.1 The Mixing Length Theory
- 5.2 Variations on the MLT
- 5.3 References and Suggested Readings
- 6 Stellar Energy Sources
- 6.1 Gravitational Energy Sources
- 6.2 Thermonuclear Energy Sources
- 6.3 The Proton-Proton Chains
- 6.4 The Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen Cycles
- 6.5 Helium-Burning Reactions
- 6.6 Carbon, Neon, and Oxygen Burning
- 6.7 Silicon “Burning”
- 6.8 Neutrino Emission Mechanisms
- 6.9 Exercises
- 6.10 References and Suggested Readings
- 7 Stellar Modeling
- 7.1 The Equations of Stellar Structure
- 7.2 Polytropic Equations of State and Polytropes
- 7.3 The Approach to Real Models
- 7.4 References and Suggested Readings
- 8 Structure and Evolution of the Sun
- 8.1 The Sun as the Prototype Star
- 8.2 From the ZAMS to the Present
- 8.3 The Solar Neutrino “Problem”
- 8.4 The Role of Rotation in Evolution
- 8.5 References and Suggested Readings
- 9 Structure and Evolution of White Dwarfs
- 9.1 Observed Properties of White Dwarfs
- 9.2 White Dwarf Evolution
- 9.3 The Magnetic White Dwarfs
- 9.4 References and Suggested Readings
- 10 Asteroseismology
- 10.1 Adiabatic Radial Pulsations
- 10.2 Nonadiabatic Radial Motions
- 10.3 An Introduction to Nonradial Oscillations
- 10.4 Helioseismology
- 10.5 Asteroseismology of White Dwarfs
- 10.6 References and Suggested Readings
- A Glossary
- B Physical and Astronomical Constants
- C Sample Computer Codes
- C.1 The ZAMS Model Builder
- C.2 Adiabatic Pulsation Code.