Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics
Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics
Volume 2:
Erika Böhm-Vitense
November 1989
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Volume 2 contains the basic physical ideas and laws used in the study of the outer layers of a star including stellar magnitudes, spectra and temperatures, radiative transfer in a stellar atmosphere, line formation, the spectrum of hydrogen, spectral analysis, and available structural components.
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"...an excellent introduction to analytical methods and comparison with observations." Virginia Trimble, Comments on Astrophysics
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November 1989Paperback
9780521348706
264 pages
246 × 174 × 13 mm
0.508kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Stellar magnitudes and stellar colors
- 2. Stellar spectra
- 3. Temperature estimates for stars
- 4. Basics about radiative transfer
- 5. Radiative transfer in stellar atmosphere
- 6. The depth dependence of the source function
- 7. The continuous absorption coefficient
- 8. The influence of the non-greyness of the absorption coefficient
- 9. The pressure stratification
- 10. Theory of line formation
- 11. The hydrogen lines
- 12. Spectrum analysis
- 13. Basics about non-local thermodynamics equilibrium
- 14. The hydrogen convection zone
- 15. Stellar chromospheres, transition layers, and coronae
- 16. Stellar winds
- Problems
- References
- Index.
