Editors:
- Covers the appreciation of the achievements of the great astronomer, Zdenek Kopal
- Personal reminiscences brought forward by Kopal's former students and colleagues
- Reflects the state of the art of the dynamically evolving field of binary research, which owes so much to the pioneering work of Zdenek Kopal
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Table of contents (74 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Reminiscences and Appreciation of a Great Astronomer
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Binary Star Morphology and Dymamical Aspects
About this book
An international conference entitled "Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy" was held on the occasion of the late Professor Kopal's 90th birthday in his home town of Litomyšl/Czech Republic and dedicated to the memory of one of the leading astronomers of the 20th century.
Professor Kopal, who devoted 60 years of his scientific life to the exploration of close binary systems, initiated a breakthrough in this field with his description of binary components as non-spherical stars deformed by gravity, with surfaces following Roche equipotentials. Such knowledge triggered the development of new branches of astrophysics dealing with the structure and evolution of close binaries and the interaction effects displayed by exciting objects such as cataclysmic variables, symbiotic stars or X-ray binaries.
Contributions to this conference included praise of the achievements of a great astronomer and personal reminiscences brought forward by Kopal's former students and colleagues, and reflected the state of the art of the dynamically evolving field of binary research, which owes so much to the pioneering work of Zdenek Kopal.
Editors and Affiliations
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Dr. Remeis Observatory, Bamberg, Germany
Horst Drechsel
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N. Copernicus Observatory and Planetarium Brno, Czech Republik
Miloslav Zejda
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Zdenek Kopal's Binary Star Legacy
Editors: Horst Drechsel, Miloslav Zejda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3875-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3131-1Published: 22 March 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6802-6Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3875-4Published: 01 August 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 488
Additional Information: Reprinted from ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE, 296:1-4, 2005
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory