Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics: Volume 1, Basic Stellar Observations and DataCambridge University Press, 25 ago 1989 - 256 páginas This textbook introduction to the basic elements of fundamental astronomy and astrophysics serves as a foundation for understanding the structure, evolution, and observed properties of stars. The first half of the book explains how stellar motions, distances, luminosities, colors, radii, masses and temperatures are measured or derived. The author then shows how data of these sorts can be arranged to classify stars through their spectra. Stellar rotation and stellar magnetic fields are introduced. Stars with peculiar spectra and pulsating stars also merit special attention. The endpoints of stellar evolutions are briefly described. There is a separate chapter on the Sun and a final one on interstellar absorption. The usefulness of this text is enhanced by the inclusion of problems for students, tables of astronomical constants, and a selective bibliography. This is an excellent textbook for undergraduate and beginning graduate students studying astronomy and astrophysics. |
Índice
Positions of stars | 1 |
12 Direction of the Earths rotation axis | 3 |
13 Visibility of the sky | 4 |
Proper motions of stars | 7 |
Distances of nearby stars | 9 |
32 Trigonometric parallaxes of stars | 11 |
The brightnesses of the stars | 13 |
42 The colors of the stars | 14 |
95 Data for stellar masses radii and effective temperatures | 84 |
96 The massluminosity relation | 85 |
Spectral classification | 89 |
102 Luminosity classification | 95 |
103 White dwarf spectra | 97 |
Understanding stellar spectra | 99 |
112 Line identification | 100 |
Population II stars | 107 |
43 Correction for the absorption of radiation in the Earths atmosphere | 16 |
44 The black body | 21 |
45 The solar radiation | 26 |
46 The absolute magnitudes of stars | 28 |
Color magnitude diagrams | 31 |
52 Color magnitude diagrams for open clusters | 33 |
53 Color magnitude diagrams for globular clusters | 36 |
54 Photometric parallaxes for star clusters | 38 |
55 Photometric parallaxes for single stars | 39 |
The luminosities of the stars | 41 |
62 The luminosity of the sun | 43 |
63 Luminosities of stars and bolometric magnitudes | 44 |
Angular radii of stars | 49 |
72 The Michelson interferometer | 50 |
73 The Hanbury Brown interferometer | 53 |
74 Angular diameters from lunar occultations | 58 |
Effective temperatures of stars | 63 |
82 The solar surface flux and effective temperature | 64 |
83 Effective temperatures of stars | 65 |
Masses and radii of stars | 67 |
92 The Doppler effect | 70 |
93 Radial velocities and masses of binaries | 71 |
94 Determination of orbital parameters for binaries | 75 |
Stellar rotation | 111 |
Stellar magnetic fields | 117 |
Stars with peculiar spectra | 127 |
153 Diffusion in stars | 136 |
154 Metallic line stars or Am stars | 140 |
155 Barium stars | 144 |
156 T Tauri stars | 147 |
Pulsating stars | 153 |
162 The d Cephei stars | 156 |
163 The RR Lyrae stars | 159 |
164 The periodluminosity relation | 161 |
Explosive stars | 165 |
172 Novae | 183 |
Our sun | 193 |
183 The outer layers of the sun | 197 |
184 The active sun | 204 |
Interstellar absorption | 213 |
193 The interstellar gas | 227 |
Appendixes | 231 |
Some important astronomical quantities | 237 |
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Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics: Volume 1, Basic Stellar Observations ... E. Böhm-Vitense No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1989 |
Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics:, Volumen 2 Erika Böhm-Vitense No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 1989 |
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