Pulsating Stars

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This book surveys our understanding of stars which change in brightness because they pulsate. Pulsating variable stars are keys to distance scales inside and beyond the Milky Way galaxy. They test our understanding not only of stellar pulsation theory but also of stellar structure and evolution theory. Moreover, pulsating stars are important probes of the formation and evolution of our own and neighboring galaxies. Our understanding of pulsating stars has greatly increased in recent years as large-scale surveys of pulsating stars in the Milky Way and other Local Group galaxies have provided a wealth of new observations and as space-based instruments have studied particular pulsating stars in unprecedented detail.

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Genre : Science
Author : Márcio Catelan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release : 2015-02-02
File : 500 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783527655205


Mass Losing Pulsating Stars And Their Circumstellar Matter

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Editing the proceedings of a scientific meeting is not an easy task. Sometimes people who give an excellent talk do not send the manuscript by the deadline. However, this time, thanks to the punctuality of all the participants, we have this excellent volume for the workshop on mass losing pulsating stars and their circumstellar matter prepared in time. Almost all of the oral presentations including the summary are collected in this volume. We regret that we cannot put in this volume a few posters that we failed to receive before the editorial work. The workshop was planned as a small meeting with less than fifty attendants because the city of Sendai was far from the most of the active institutions. However, the number of submitted papers exceeded the SOC's expectation; many interesting contributions had to be scheduled in the poster session. Still, the oral sessions were so tight that many participants might have felt frustrated for the shortage of discussions. The organizers of the workshop have to apologize to the attendants for the inconvenience caused from such a happy underestimate about the size of the workshop.

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Genre : Science
Author : Y. Nakada
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2012-12-06
File : 427 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789401001397


An Introduction To Close Binary Stars

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Binary systems of stars are as common as single stars. They are of fundamental importance because they allow stellar masses, radii and luminosities to be measured directly, and explain a host of diverse and energetic phenomena including X-ray binaries, cataclysmic variables, novae, symbiotic stars, and some types of supernovae. This 2001 book was the first to provide a pedagogical and comprehensive introduction to binary stars. It combines theory and observations at all wavelengths to develop a unified understanding of binaries of all categories. It comprehensively reviews methods for calculating orbits, the Roche model, ideas about mass exchange and loss, methods for analysing light curves, the masses and dimensions of different binary systems, and imaging the surfaces of stars and accretion structures. This book provides a thorough introduction to the subject for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Researchers will also find this to be an authoritative reference.

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Genre : Science
Author : R. W. Hilditch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2001-03-12
File : 398 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521798000


Library Of Congress Subject Headings

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Genre : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Author : Library of Congress
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Release : 2013
File : 1624 Pages
ISBN-13 : MINN:30000009706932


Globular Clusters

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An accessible introduction to globular clusters for graduate students, and a comprehensive and up-to-date reference for researchers.

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Genre : Science
Author : C. Martinez Roger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 1999-10-28
File : 380 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521770580


Literature 1981 Part 1

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Genre : Science
Author : Siegfried Böhme
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2013-11-11
File : 862 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783662123287


Binary Stars As Critical Tools And Tests In Contemporary Astrophysics Iau S240

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IAU S240 focuses on recent advances across the broad field of binary star research.

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Genre : Science
Author : International Astronomical Union. Symposium
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2007-08-27
File : 524 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521863481


The Future Of Asteroseismology

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Genre : Science
Author : Joyce Ann Guzik
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Release : 2021-08-17
File : 269 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9782889711833


Pulsation And Mass Loss In Stars

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Stellar mass loss is an essential part of the cycling of material from the interstellar medium into stars and back, and must be understood if we are to model processes on galactic to cosmological scales. The study of stellar winds and the effects of stellar mass loss has reached a particularly exciting stage where observational capabilities are increasingly able to provide interesting constraints on models and theories. Recent resu1ts from theoretical and observational work for both hot and cool stars with substantial winds have led to the suggestion that a combination of pulsation with other mechanisms makes for particularly efficient mass loss from stars. This provided the original motivation for the organization of this workshop. The conference was organized along relatively conventional lines according to the types of objects being scrutinized. However the true unity of the proceedings comes from the interplay of the mechanisms involved. For example, for the cool, luminous Mira variables, pulsation leads to shock waves that extend the atmosphere, enhancing dust formation; radiation pressure on dust drives the wind, cooling the atmosphere and in some cases suppressing the shocks. Similarly for the Be stars, both pulsation (in this case, non-radial) and radiation pressure (due to UV resonance lines) are expected to be important, and this expectation is at least qualitatively borne out by the observations.

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Genre : Science
Author : R. Stalio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Release : 2012-12-06
File : 332 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789400930292


Introduction To Stellar Astrophysics Volume 1 Basic Stellar Observations And Data

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This textbook introduction to the basic elements of fundamental astronomy and astrophysics serves as a foundation for understanding the structure, evolution, and observed properties of stars. The first half of the book explains how stellar motions, distances, luminosities, colors, radii, masses and temperatures are measured or derived. The author then shows how data of these sorts can be arranged to classify stars through their spectra. Stellar rotation and stellar magnetic fields are introduced. Stars with peculiar spectra and pulsating stars also merit special attention. The endpoints of stellar evolutions are briefly described. There is a separate chapter on the Sun and a final one on interstellar absorption. The usefulness of this text is enhanced by the inclusion of problems for students, tables of astronomical constants, and a selective bibliography. This is an excellent textbook for undergraduate and beginning graduate students studying astronomy and astrophysics.

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Genre : Science
Author : Erika Böhm-Vitense
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 1989-08-25
File : 260 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0521348692