Research Catalog

Title

The stars / Evry L. Schatzman, Franc̜oise Praderie ; translated by A.R. King.

Author

Schatzman, Evry L.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1993], ©1993.

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Additional Authors

Praderie, F. (Françoise)

Description

xv, 402 : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Astronomy and astrophysics library

Uniform Title

• Etoiles. English
• Astronomy and astrophysics library.

Alternative Title

Etoiles.

Subject

• Stars
• Astrophysics

Note

• Translation of: Les et́oiles.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-395) and index.

Contents

• 1. Basic Stellar Data. 1.1. Stellar Distances. Magnitudes. 1.2. Stellar Spectra. 1.3. Stellar Radii. 1.4. The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram. 1.5. Stellar Masses. 1.6. Stellar Populations -- 2. The Sun: The Nearest Star. 2.2. Models of the Solar Atmosphere. 2.3. The Chemical Composition of the Solar Atmosphere. 2.4. Fine Structure of the Quiet Solar Atmosphere. 2.5. Resolved Structure in the Active Sun -- 3. Stellar Evolution. 3.1. Basic Internal Structure. 3.2. First Approximations: Orders of Magnitude. 3.3. Stellar Structure: Basic Physics. 3.4. Stellar Structure. 3.5. Stellar Evolution (The Standard Model). 3.6. The Sun. 3.7. Evolution with Mass Loss. 3.8. Evolution of Binary Stars. 3.9. Evolution to the Main Sequence -- 4. Mass Loss and Stellar Winds. 4.2. Observational Data: General Remarks. 4.3. Direct Data on Winds. 4.4. Indirect Data on Winds. 4.5. Generation of Mass Loss. 4.6. Heating Mechanisms -- 5. Hydrodynamics of the Stellar Interior: Convection and Rotation.
• 5.2. Convection. 5.3. The Theory of Convection Zones. 5.4. Circulation and Rotation. 5.5. Observations and Interpretation -- 6. Variable Stars. 6.1. Classification of Variable Stars. 6.2. Periodic Pulsating Variables (RR Lyrae, Cepheids, Miras). 6.3. Other Variables. 6.4. Variable Stars and Dynamical Systems. 6.5. Non-radial Oscillations -- 7. Solar and Stellar Activity. 7.1. Indicators of Activity. 7.2. Timescales of Magnetic Variability of the Sun and Stars. 7.3. Solar and Stellar Flares. 7.4. Stellar Magnetic Flares. 7.5. Sources of Stellar Activity: Convection, Rotation, Primordial Fields (Empirical Aspects) -- 8. The Last Stages of Stellar Evolution. 8.1. Minimum-Energy States. 8.2. The Physics of Minimum-Energy States. 8.3. White Dwarfs. 8.4. Neutron Stars. 8.5. Type II Supernovae.

ISBN

• 0387541969 (New York : alk. paper)
• 3540541969 (Berlin : alk. paper)

LCCN

92038500

OCLC

• 26853234
• ocm26853234

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries