Hans-Peter Gail, Erwin Sedlmayr

Physics and Chemistry of Circumstellar Dust Shells

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores why dust forms around stars, and how to model stellar dust formation and dust-forming environments consistently.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Astrophysics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 684
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 184mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1384g
• ISBN-13: 9780521833790
• ISBN-10: 0521833795
• Artikelnr.: 38611169

Autorenporträt

Hans-Peter Gail received his PhD in astrophysics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he has been a professor since 1996. His research interests include cosmic dust, the cosmic matter cycle, mass-loss processes, protoplanetary disks and astromineralogy.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. Introduction
2. Evolutionary status of dust-enshrouded objects
Part II. Theoretical Description of Circumstellar Dust Shells: 3. Theory of circumstellar dust shells
4. The energy equation for matter
5. Radiative transfer
6. Interaction between gas and dust particles
7. Extinction by dust grains and gas
8. Approaches to the temperature equations
9. Chemistry in thermodynamic equilibrium
10. Gas-phase chemical composition
11. Gas-solid chemical equilibria
12. Growth of dust grains
13. Formation of seed nuclei
14. Moment equations
Part III. Applications: 15. Modeling of circumstellar dust shells
16. Miras and long-period variables
17. Mass loss formulae
18. R Coronae Borealis stars
Part IV. Appendices
Bibliography
Index.