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New Light on Dark Stars

Red Dwarfs, Low-Mass Stars, Brown Stars

  • Presents a comprehensive review of both the astrophysical nature of individual red dwarf and brown dwarf stars and their collective statistical properties
  • Revised edition includes important new material on observational techniques, stellar acivity, the Galactic halo and field star surveys
  • Details many discoveries of new brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets made since publication of the first edition
  • Updates observational results and theoretical work in a state-of-the-art review of current knowledge of very low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets

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 (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiv
  2. The photosphere

    Pages 147-184
  3. Stellar activity

    Pages 185-235
  4. Brown dwarfs

    Pages 237-288
  5. The mass function

    Pages 403-455
  6. Extrasolar planets

    Pages 493-539
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 541-565

About this book

There has been very considerable progress in research into low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets during the past few years, particularly since the fist edtion of this book was published in 2000. In this new edtion the authors present a comprehensive review of both the astrophysical nature of individual red dwarf and brown dwarf stars and their collective statistical properties as an important Galactic stellar population. Chapters dealing with the observational properies of low-mass dwarfs, the stellar mass function and extrasolar planets have been completely revised. Other chapters have been significantly revised and updated as appropriate, including important new material on observational techniques, stellar acivity, the Galactic halo and field star surveys. The authors detail the many discoveries of new brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets made since publication of the first edition of the book and provide a state-of-the-art review of our current knowledge of very low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets, including both the latest observational results and theoretical work.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA

    I. Neill Reid

  • Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Suzanne L. Hawley

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Light on Dark Stars

  • Book Subtitle: Red Dwarfs, Low-Mass Stars, Brown Stars

  • Authors: I. Neill Reid, Suzanne L. Hawley

  • Series Title: Springer Praxis Books

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27610-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-25124-8Published: 06 June 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06418-0Published: 21 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-27610-4Published: 01 September 2006

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XXXIV, 560

  • Additional Information: Jointly published with Praxis Publishing, UK

  • Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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