Advanced Stellar Astrophysics
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- Author: William K. Rose, University of Maryland, College Park
- Date Published: April 1998
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521581882
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In the last few decades, remarkable progress has been made in understanding stars. This graduate-level 1998 textbook provides a systematic, self-contained and lucid introduction to the physical processes and fundamental equations underlying all aspects of stellar astrophysics. The volume provides authoritative astronomical discussions as well as rigorous mathematical derivations and illuminating explanations of the physical concepts involved. In addition to traditional topics such as stellar interiors and atmospheres, the reader is introduced to stellar winds, mass accretion, nuclear astrophysics, weak interactions, novae, supernovae, pulsars, neutron stars and black holes. A concise introduction to general relativity is also included. At the end of each chapter, exercises and helpful hints are provided to test and develop the understanding of the student. This advanced textbook on stellar astrophysics provides a thorough introduction for graduate students and a review for researchers.
Read more- A comprehensive and self-contained graduate textbook
- An advanced textbook on stellar astrophysics
- Includes a concise introduction to general relativity
- Exercises and helpful hints are provided at the end of each chapter (more than 100 in all)
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- Date Published: April 1998
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521581882
- length: 496 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.99kg
- contains: 26 b/w illus. 106 exercises
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Star formation and stellar evolution: an overview
2. Introduction to the physics of stellar interiors and the equations of stellar structure
3. Statistical physics
4. Absorption processes
5. Stellar atmospheres, convective envelopes and stellar winds
6. Thermonuclear reactions and nucleosynthesis
7. Weak interactions in stellar interiors
8. Stellar stability and hydrodynamics
9. Binary stars, mass accretion, stellar rotation and meridional circulation
10. Stellar magnetic fields
11. White dwarfs, novae and supernovae
12. General relativity
13. Neutron stars and black holes
Appendix A: physical and astronomical constants
Appendix B: further comments on the Dirac equation
Appendix C: mathematical appendix
Appendix D: polytropes and the isothermal gas sphere
Appendix E: solutions to selected problems
References
Index.
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