A Concise History of Solar and Stellar PhysicsPrinceton University Press, 2014 M11 28 - 304 pages This book provides a comprehensive overview of the history of ideas about the sun and the stars, from antiquity to modern times. Two theoretical astrophysicists who have been active in the field since the early 1960s tell the story in fluent prose. About half of the book covers most of the theoretical research done from 1940 to the close of the twentieth century, a large body of work that has to date been little explored by historians. |
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... Binary Stars and Stellar Masses Variable and Unusual Stars The Rise of Astrophysics Chapter 3. The Time of Pioneers: 1840–1910 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 The Puzzle of the Sun's Energy The First Solar Models The Pulsation Theory of ...
... Binary Stars The Pulsation Theory of Variable Stars (III) Stellar Rotation and Magnetic Fields The Maturing of Solar Physics Chapter 6. The Era of Specialization: 1970– 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Single, Double, and Multiple Stars Early ...
... binary Roche model Zdenˇek Kopal Harlow Shapley with Ejnar Hertzsprung The period-luminosity relations for RR Lyrae stars and Cepheid variables Periodic variations of δ Cephei Rotational velocities for different classes of stars Otto ...
... binary pulsar 244 Every reasonable effort has been made to contact the copyright holders for all previously published pieces appearing in this volume. Figure 2.8 (©1924) and figure 6.5 (©1990) are reprinted with permission from Nature ...
... binary star systems, emit a weak gravitational field in the form of waves (see section 6.6). These waves propagate with the speed of light. Action at a distance is therefore avoided, and causality is restored. 1See A. Van Helden ...
Contents
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16101910 | 29 |
18401910 | 66 |
19101940 | 94 |
19401970 | 133 |
1970 | 192 |
Epilogue | 247 |
Appendix A Lanes Fully Convective Gas Spheres | 250 |
Appendix C Ritters Theory of Pulsating Stars | 252 |
Appendix D Radial and Nonradial Stellar Pulsations | 254 |
Appendix E Bohrs Model of the Atom | 257 |
Appendix F Einsteins MassEnergy Relation | 260 |
Appendix G Three Important Nuclear Reactions | 263 |
General Bibliography | 265 |
Index of Names | 269 |
Index of Subjects | 277 |
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