Mario Livio / Eva Villaver (Hrsg.)

Massive Stars

Herausgeber: Livio, Mario; Villaver, Eva

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents observational and theoretical papers from world experts addressing the important role in astrophysics of massive stars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780521762632
• ISBN-10: 0521762634
• Artikelnr.: 27870405

Inhaltsangabe

Participants
Preface Mario Livio and Eva Villaver
1. High-mass star formation by gravitational collapse of massive cores M. R. Krumholz
2. Observations of massive star formation N. A. Patel
3. Massive star formation in the Galactic center D. F. Figer
4. An X-ray tour of massive star-forming regions with Chandra L. K. Townsley
5. Massive stars: feedback effects in the local universe M. S. Oey and C. J. Clarke
6. The initial mass function in clusters B. G. Elmegreen
7. Massive stars and star clusters in the Antennae galaxies B. C. Whitmore
8. On the binarity of Eta Carinae T. R. Gull
9. Parameters and winds of hot massive stars R. P. Kudritzki and M. A. Urbaneja
10. Unraveling the Galaxy to find the first stars J. Tumlinson
11. Optically observable zero-age main-sequence O stars N. R. Walborn
12. Metallicity-dependent Wolf-Raynet winds P. A. Crowther
13. Eruptive mass loss in very massive stars and Population III stars N. Smith
14. From progenitor to afterlife R. A. Chevalier
15. Pair-production supernovae: theory and observation E. Scannapieco
16. Cosmic infrared background and Population III: an overview A. Kashlinsky.