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- Provides a comprehensive overview on stellar structure, evolution and basic stellar properties
- Derives main stellar structure equations and explains their various applications at different points throughout the lifetime of a star
- Includes many problems throughout the chapters with worked out solutions
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Astronomy and Planetary Sciences (ASTRONOMY)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive overview of stellar structure, evolution and basic stellar properties. It includes integrated problems within the chapters, with worked solutions.
In the first part of this book, the author presents the basic properties of the stellar interior and describes them thoroughly, along with deriving the main stellar structure equations of temperature, density, pressure and luminosity, among others. The process and application of solving these equations is explained, as well as linking these results with actual observations. The second part of the text describes what happens to a star over time and how to determine this by solving the same equations at different points during a star’s lifetime. The fate of various stars is quite different depending on their masses and this is described in the final parts of the book. This text can be used for an upper level undergraduate course or an introductory graduate course on stellar physics.
Authors and Affiliations
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Departamento de Astronomia, Cidade Universitaria IAG/USP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Walter J. Maciel
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Stellar Structure
Authors: Walter J. Maciel
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16142-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16141-9Published: 25 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36610-4Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16142-6Published: 16 September 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 215
Additional Information: Originally published as Introdução à Estrutura e Evolução Estelar, (c) Editora da Universidade de São Paulo