Stellar Interiors

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Preliminaries

   • Carl J. Hansen, Steven D. Kawaler

   Pages 1-33

3. An Overview of Stellar Evolution

   • Carl J. Hansen, Steven D. Kawaler

   Pages 35-108

4. Equations of State

   • Carl J. Hansen, Steven D. Kawaler

   Pages 109-148

5. Radiative and Conductive Heat Transfer

   • Carl J. Hansen, Steven D. Kawaler

   Pages 149-173

6. Heat Transfer by Convection

   • Carl J. Hansen, Steven D. Kawaler

   Pages 175-207

7. Stellar Energy Sources

   • Carl J. Hansen, Steven D. Kawaler

   Pages 209-260

8. Stellar Modeling

   • Carl J. Hansen, Steven D. Kawaler

   Pages 261-314

9. Structure and Evolution of the Sun

   • Carl J. Hansen, Steven D. Kawaler

   Pages 315-338

10. Structure and Evolution of White Dwarfs

    • Carl J. Hansen, Steven D. Kawaler

    Pages 339-357

11. Asteroseismology

    • Carl J. Hansen, Steven D. Kawaler

    Pages 359-420

12. Back Matter

    Pages 421-445

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That trees should have been cut down to provide paper for this book was an ecological afIront. From a book review. - Anthony Blond (in the Spectator, 1983) The first modern text on our subject, Structure and Evolution of the Stars, was published over thirty years ago. In it, Martin Schwarzschild described numerical experiments that successfully reproduced most of the observed properties of the majority of stars seen in the sky. He also set the standard for a lucid description of the physics of stellar interiors. Ten years later, in 1968, John P. Cox's tw~volume monograph Principles of Stellar Structure appeared, as did the more specialized text Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nuc1eosynthesis by Donald D. Clayton-and what a difference ten years had made. The field had matured into the basic form that it remains today. The past twenty-plus years have seen this branch of astrophysics flourish and develop into a fundamental pillar of modern astrophysics that addresses an enormous variety of phenomena. In view of this it might seem foolish to offer another text of finite length and expect it to cover any more than a fraction of what should be discussed to make it a thorough and self-contained reference. Well, it doesn't. Our specific aim is to introduce only the fundamentals of stellar astrophysics. You will find little reference here to black holes, millisecond pulsars, and other "sexy" objects.

• Asteroseismology
• Evolution
• Variation
• gravitation
• gravity
• helioseismology
• star
• stellar evolution
• stellar structure
• sun
• white dwarf

From the reviews
"Besides being well-written, it presents some fresh perspectives ... Well designed to be a textbook in a senior-level course both for students interested in astronomy and space, planetary and Earth sciences, and for students seeking to consolidate their understanding by using it in a broad set of applications. It can also provide a readable introduction to the subject for scientists working in related areas... The book comes with a PC diskette containing two FORTRAN programs (on stellar evolution). This is now my favorite book to use in a senior-level course."
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• Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

  Carl J. Hansen

• Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, USA

  Steven D. Kawaler

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