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Stellar Structure and Evolution
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Author(s):
Rudolf Kippenhahn
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Alfred Weigert
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Achim Weiss
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2012
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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978-3-642-30255-8
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978-3-642-30304-3
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2012
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10.1007/978-3-642-30304-3
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Book chapters
pp. 1
Introducing Asteroseismology
pp. 1
What Is the Diffuse Universe?
pp. 1
Introduction and Historical Review
pp. 3
Coordinates, Mass Distribution, and Gravitational Field in Spherical Stars
pp. 9
Conservation of Momentum
pp. 11
Line Emission Processes
pp. 19
The Virial Theorem
pp. 19
The Mechanical Equilibrium of Rotating Stars
pp. 25
Conservation of Energy
pp. 31
Observations of Stellar Oscillations across the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
pp. 37
Transport of Energy by Radiation and Conduction
pp. 41
Collisional Excitation
pp. 47
Stability Against Local, Non-spherical Perturbations
pp. 59
Introductory Theory of Interferometry and Synthesis Imaging
pp. 59
Line Transfer Effects
pp. 61
Transport of Energy by Convection
pp. 67
The Energy Conservation and Radiative Equilibrium in Rotating Stars
pp. 73
The Chemical Composition
pp. 83
Mass Loss
pp. 83
Stellar Convection
pp. 89
The Differential Equations of Stellar Evolution
pp. 89
Analysis of the Interferometer Response
pp. 93
Boundary Conditions
pp. 95
Neutral Hydrogen and the Diffuse Interstellar Medium
pp. 101
Collisional Ionization Equilibrium
pp. 105
Numerical Procedure
pp. 109
Geometrical Relationships, Polarimetry, and the Interferometer Measurement Equation
pp. 123
The Perfect Gas with Radiation
pp. 125
Continuum and Recombination Line Processes
pp. 127
Ionization
pp. 137
Theory of Stellar Oscillations
pp. 137
The Equation of State
pp. 139
The Degenerate Electron Gas
pp. 143
Cooling Plasmas
pp. 151
The Equation of State of Stellar Matter
pp. 153
Antennas and Arrays
pp. 163
Opacity
pp. 175
Nuclear Energy Production
pp. 175
Interstellar Shocks
pp. 193
Nuclear Reactions and Neutrino Processes
pp. 207
Response of the Receiving System
pp. 213
Polytropic Gaseous Spheres
pp. 215
Transport Processes: Diffusion and Advection
pp. 219
The Theory of Photoionized Regions
pp. 233
Homology Relations
pp. 243
Simple Models in the U–V Plane
pp. 249
Parameters of Photoionized Regions
pp. 251
The Zero-Age Main Sequence
pp. 255
System Design
pp. 263
Other Main Sequences
pp. 271
The Hayashi Line
pp. 277
Photoionizing Shocks
pp. 283
Rotation-Driven Instabilities
pp. 283
Stability Considerations
pp. 289
Interstellar Dust
pp. 295
The Structure of Our Galaxy Derived from Observations of Neutral Hydrogen
pp. 295
Observational Techniques for Asteroseismology
pp. 299
The Onset of Star Formation
pp. 309
Digital Signal Processing
pp. 311
The Formation of Protostars
pp. 323
Pre-Main-Sequence Contraction
pp. 325
Introduction to Astrochemistry
pp. 329
From the Initial to the Present Sun
pp. 337
Frequency Analysis
pp. 343
Evolution on the Main Sequence
pp. 343
Thermal Phases of Diffuse Matter
pp. 355
Physics of Mass Loss by Stellar Winds
pp. 367
Evolution Through Helium Burning: Intermediate-Mass Stars
pp. 371
Radial Pulsations of Stars
pp. 377
Mode Identification
pp. 385
Evolution Through Helium Burning: Massive Stars
pp. 391
Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry
pp. 391
Evolution Through Helium Burning: Low-Mass Stars
pp. 417
Evolution on the Asymptotic Giant Branch
pp. 439
Later Phases of Core Evolution
pp. 447
Applications of Asteroseismology
pp. 449
Final Explosions and Collapse
pp. 449
Transport by Gravity Waves
pp. 475
White Dwarfs
pp. 485
Calibration and Imaging
pp. 497
Neutron Stars
pp. 497
The Protostellar Phase and Accretion Disks
pp. 509
Black Holes
pp. 513
The Pre-main Sequence Phase and the Birthlines
pp. 519
Adiabatic Spherical Pulsations
pp. 529
Non-adiabatic Spherical Pulsations
pp. 543
Non-radial Stellar Oscillations
pp. 551
Further Imaging Techniques
pp. 551
The Formation of Massive Stars
pp. 557
The Mechanics of Rotating Stellar Models
pp. 565
The Thermodynamics of Rotating Stellar Models
pp. 575
The Angular-Velocity Distribution in Stars
pp. 593
Solutions of the Equations and Simple Models
pp. 599
Interferometer Techniques for Astrometry and Geodesy
pp. 613
Evolution in the H-Burning Phases
pp. 657
Propagation Effects: Neutral Medium
pp. 669
The Future
pp. 685
Massive Star Evolution with Mass Loss and Rotation
pp. 725
Propagation Effects: Ionized Media
pp. 755
Evolution of Z = 0 and Very Low Z Stars
pp. 767
Van Cittert–Zernike Theorem, Spatial Coherence, and Scattering
pp. 787
Radio Frequency Interference
pp. 809
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