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Stars and stellar processes
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Title
Stars and stellar processes / Mike Guidry.
ISBN
9781107197886
1107197880
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
xxv, 545 pages ; 26 cm
Summary
"This book contains material used in an advanced undergraduate astronomy course on stellar structure and stellar evolution that I teach regularly at the University of Tennessee. The goal of the course and of the book is to provide an introduction that is topically current and accessible to a reader with some physics but minimal astrophysics background"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 16, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Some properties of stars
The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Stellar equations of state
Hydrostatic and thermal equilibrium
Thermonuclear reactions in stars
Stellar burning processes
Energy transport in stars
Summary of stellar equations
The formation of stars
Life and times on themain sequence
Flavor oscillations of solar neutrinos
Solar neutrinos and the MSW effect
Evolution of lower-mass stars
Evolution of higher-mass stars
Stellar pulsations and variability
White dwarfs and neutron stars
Black holes
Accreting binary systems
Nova explosions and X-ray bursts
Supernovae
Gamma-ray bursts
Gravitational waves and stellar evolution.
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