Introduction to stellar astrophysics,

✍ Scribed by Boehm-Vitense E.

• Publisher: CUP
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
1 Positions of stars......Page 12
2 Proper motions of stars......Page 18
3 Distances of nearby stars......Page 20
4 The brightnesses of the stars......Page 24
5 Color magnitude diagrams......Page 42
6 The luminosities of the stars......Page 52
7 Angular radii of stars......Page 60
8 Effective temperatures of stars......Page 74
9 Masses and radii of stars......Page 78
10 Spectral classification......Page 100
11 Understanding stellar spectra......Page 110
12 Population II stars......Page 118
13 Stellar rotation......Page 122
14 Stellar magnetic fields......Page 128
15 Stars with peculiar spectra......Page 138
16 Pulsating stars......Page 164
17 Explosive stars......Page 176
18 Our sun......Page 204
19 Interstellar absorption......Page 224
References......Page 250
Index (Volume 1)......Page 254

✦ Subjects

Физика;Астрономия и астрофизика;Астрофизика;Астрофизика звезд;