Pulsating stars /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Catelan, Márcio
Group Author: Smith, Horace A
Published: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA,
Publisher Address: Weinheim, Germany :
Publication Dates: [2015]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xii, 455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-409) and indexes.
ISBN: 9783527407156
3527407154
Index Number: QB838
CLC: P145.6
Call Number: P145.6/C358
Contents: Historical overview -- Fundamentals of stellar variability observations -- Classification of variable stars -- Stellar structure and evolution theory -- Stellar pulsation theory -- RR Lyrae stars -- Cepheid and related variable stars -- Red variable stars -- Pulsating stars close to the lower main sequence in the H-R diagram -- Pulsating stars close to the upper main sequence in the H-R diagram -- Pulsating supergiant stars -- Hot subdwarf pulsators -- Pulsating degenerate stars.