Henny J G L M Lamers, Emily M Levesque

Understanding Stellar Evolution (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding Stellar Evolution is based on a series of graduate-level courses taught at the University of Washington since 2004, and is written for physics and astronomy students and for anyone with a physics background who is interested in stars. It describes the structure and evolution of stars, with emphasis on the basic physical principles and the interplay between the different processes inside stars. Based on these principles, the evolution of low- and high-mass stars is explained from their formation to their death.

The physical effects described include nuclear reactions, energy transport, chemical mixing, pulsation, mass loss, and rotation. A short description of the evolution of interacting binaries is also included. Modern state-of-the-art evolution models that follow from these basic principles are compared with observations, providing a test for the understanding of the processes that occur inside stars. Where physical processes are complex, intuitive explanations are given in addition to the proper mathematical derivations, and simple figures are used to explain the key effects. In addition to homework exercises for each chapter, the text contains a large number of questions that are meant to stimulate the understanding of the physical principles. An extensive set of accompanying lecture slides is available for teachers in both Keynote® and PowerPoint® formats.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Institute of Physics Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750312783
• Artikelnr.: 50706603

Autorenporträt

Short version

Henny J G L M Lamers is Professor Emeritus in Astrophysics at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. He is a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary member of the American Astronomical Society. Emily Levesque is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research accolades include a 2017 Alfred P Sloan fellowship in physics and 2014 Annie Jump Cannon research prize from the American Astronomical Society.

Long version

Henny J G L M Lamers is Professor Emeritus in Astrophysics at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. He is a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary member of the American Astronomical Society, Honorary Brittingham Chair at the University of Wisconsin (1989), Nominee Teacher of the Year of the Utrecht University, and received the Schmeits Award for Astronomy in the Netherlands (1980). He is author/editor of nine professional astronomy books and author of four popular astronomy books.

Emily Levesque is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research accolades include a 2017 Alfred P Sloan fellowship in physics and 2014 Annie Jump Cannon research prize from the American Astronomical Society. She was both an Einstein and Hubble postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado, and received her PhD in astronomy from the University of Hawaii and her SB in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.