Stars and stellar processes / Mike Guidry.
"This book contains material used in an advanced undergraduate astronomy course on stellar structure and stellar evolution that I teach regularly at the University of Tennessee. The goal of the course and of the book is to provide an introduction that is topically current and accessible to a re...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Some properties of stars
- The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
- Stellar equations of state
- Hydrostatic and thermal equilibrium
- Thermonuclear reactions in stars
- Stellar burning processes
- Energy transport in stars
- Summary of stellar equations
- The formation of stars
- Life and times on themain sequence
- Flavor oscillations of solar neutrinos
- Solar neutrinos and the MSW effect
- Evolution of lower-mass stars
- Evolution of higher-mass stars
- Stellar pulsations and variability
- White dwarfs and neutron stars
- Black holes
- Accreting binary systems
- Nova explosions and X-ray bursts
- Supernovae
- Gamma-ray bursts
- Gravitational waves and stellar evolution.