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Main Authors: Meadows, A. J. Arthur Jack
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Published: Pergamon Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford ; New York :
Publication Dates: 1978.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: 2d ed.
Series: Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering, and social studies
Subjects:
Stars > Evolution
E toiles > E volution
SCIENCE > Astronomy
Sterevolutie
Estrelas Agrupamento E Associacoes
Sternentwicklung
Electronic books
Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080216690
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (vii, 171 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (page 167) and index.
ISBN: 9781483279480
1483279480
Index Number: QB806
CLC: P152
Contents: Front Cover; Stellar Evolution; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; CHAPTER 1. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STARS; Classification; Brightness and Distance; Surface Temperatures, Colours and Spectra; Sizes of Stars; Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram; Stellar Masses; Chemical Composition; Minor Characteristics; Ages of Stars; The Sun; Summary; CHAPTER 2. STELLAR FAMILLES; Initial Classification; Physical Groupings of Stars; The Galaxy; Star Clusters; Stellar Populations; Chemical Composition and Stellar Populations; Stellar Motions and Populations; Associations.
The Spiral ArmsVariable Stars; Exploding Stars; Spectroscopic Peculiarities; Summary; CHAPTER 3. THE STRUCTURE OF STARS; The State of Stellar Matter; The Transfer of Energy in a Star; Energy Production in Stars; Stellar Models; Stellar Models and Electronic Computers; CHAPTER 4. THE BIRTH OF STARS; The Stars and Interstellar Material; Motions in the Interstellar Medium; The Effect of Heat Energy on Condensation; The Effect of Magnetic Energy on Condensation; The Effect of Rotational Energy on Condensation; Possible Methods of Condensation; Fragmentation of Gas Clouds.
Contraction of an Individual StarObservational Effects of Contraction; Rotation and Magnetic Fields; CHAPTER 5. THE MAIN SEQUENCE; The End of Contraction; Mass and Chemical Composition; The Upper and Lower Main Sequence; The Upper Main Sequence; The Upper Limit of the Main Sequence; The Lower Main Sequence; The Lower Limit of the Main Sequence; Chemical Composition and the Evolution of Main-sequence Stars; Main-sequence Stars of Intermediate Mass; The Age of Star Clusters; Mixing in Stars; Rotational Mixing; Observational Indications of Mixing; Mass Change and Evolution.
CHAPTER 6. THE SUN AS A STARThe Evolution of the Sun; Deuterium, Lithium, Beryllium and Boron; The Rotation of the Sun; The Solar Magnetic Fields; Stellar Magnetic Fields; Stellar Activity; Magnetic Fields and Evolution; Solar and Stellar Coronae; Neutrinos and the Sun; CHAPTER 7. RED GIANTS AND AFTER; Exhaustion of the Central Hydrogen; Further Evolution of a Lower Main-sequence Star; Helium-burning in Lower Main-sequence Stars; The Effect of the Helium Flash; Further Evolution of an Upper Main-sequence Star; Mass Loss and the Evolution of Lower-mass Stars; The Evolution of Double Stars.
Nuclear Reactions after Helium burningUltimate Evolution of Main-sequence Stars; CHAPTER 8. OLD AGE AND DEATH; The End of Upper Main-sequence Stars; The End of Less Massive Stars; Novae and Planetary Nebulae; White Dwarfs; Supernovae; Neutron Stars; Black holes; CHAPTER 9. STARS AND GALAXIES; Galactic Evolution; Observational Characteristics of Galaxies; Peculiar and Normal Galaxies; Further Reading; Index.

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