Overview
- Highly appreciated book brought up-to-date
- Hot topics like Gamma-Ray-Bursts added
- Written by a leading expert in stellar physics who presents both current knowledge and open questions.
- No less than 1000 references cover most of the important literature ever published in this field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library (AAL)
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"Stellar Physics" is a an outstanding book in the growing body of literature on star formation and evolution. Not only does the author, a leading expert in the field, very thoroughly present the current state of knowledge on stellar physics, but he handles with equal care the many problems that this field of research still faces. A bibliography with well over 1000 entries makes this book an unparalleled reference source.
"Stellar Evolution and Stability" is the second of two volumes and can be read, as can the first volume "Fundamental Concepts and Stellar Equilibrium," as a largely independent work. It traces in great detail the evolution of protostars towards the main sequence and beyond this to the last stage of stellar evolution, with the corresponding vast range from white dwarfs to supernovae explosions, gamma-ray bursts and black hole formation. The book concludes with special chapters on the dynamical, thermal and pulsing stability of stars.
This second edition is carefully updated in the areas of pre-supernova models, magnetorotational supernovae, and the theory of accretion disks around black holes. Additional sections have been added on strange quark stars, jet formation and collimation, radiation-driven winds in strong gravitational fields and gamma-ray bursts.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Stellar Physics
Book Subtitle: 2: Stellar Evolution and Stability
Authors: Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan
Series Title: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14734-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-14733-3Published: 05 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26648-5Published: 25 February 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-14734-0Published: 04 January 2011
Series ISSN: 0941-7834
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9698
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXII, 494
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles