Massive Stars in Starbursts
Massive Stars in Starbursts
Nolan Walborn, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
Timothy Heckman, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
Colin Norman, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore
Out of Print
This book reviews the importance of massive stars in several areas of astrophysics. Massive stars are objects that are 10-100 times the mass of our Sun. Above ten solar masses, loss through stellar winds begins to have a major impact on the evolution of a star. The upper limit of 100 solar masses is derived from observations. Significant progress has now been achieved in massive star research. New models, along with high quality observations, have improved our understanding of the formation, structure, atmosphere, and evolution of these massive objects. They are formed in violent bursts of star formation and are probably related to the phenomena observed in active galactic nuclei. The workshop at the Space Telescope Science Institute examined the interplay between the astrophysics of massive stars and their location in extragalactic starburst regions. There are eighteen chapters by leading researchers. Each has been carefully edited to ensure that the book is a comprehensive introduction to the theory and observation of massive stars in starburst regions.
Product details
May 1991Hardback
9780521404655
349 pages
257 × 180 × 22 mm
0.78kg
85 b/w illus. 5 tables
Unavailable - out of print February 2006
Table of Contents
- 1. Massive stars
- 2. Spectra of massive blue stars
- 3. Massive red stars in galaxies
- 4. Model atmospheres of massive hot stars
- 5. Massive star evolution
- 6. The observational H-R diagram and the IMF of massive stars
- 7. IR- and mm-observations of regions of massive star formation
- 8. 30 Doradus, starburst rosetta
- 9. Properties of giant HII regions
- 10. Supernovae and supernova remnants in starbursts
- 11. Observations and models of blue compact dwarf galaxies
- 12. The initial mass function in M82
- 13. Population synthesis models of starbursts
- 14. HII and infrared in global starburst galaxies
- 15. Stellar content of starburst galaxies
- 16. Models of starburst galaxies
- 17. The starburst-AGN connection
- 18. Cosmological consequences of starbursts.
