Pulsating stars /
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Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA,
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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. |