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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... Rotation Intrinsic Properties of Stars 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 ...
... Rotation Solar and Stellar Hydrodynamics Chapter 5. The Golden Age: 1940–1970 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Nuclear Reactions and Energy Production in Stars Calculation of Stellar Structure A Brief Survey of Stellar Evolution ...
... 118 119 123 126 127 129 132 137 138 139 140 141 142 144 149 151 153 154 155 156 160 164 167 168 170 174 175 178 180 181 186 190 196 197 198 6.4 Models of rapidly rotating B-type stars 208 6.5 Schematic viii LIST OF FIGURES.
Jean-Louis Tassoul, Monique Tassoul. 6.4 Models of rapidly rotating B-type stars 208 6.5 Schematic plot showing p-mode solar frequencies 213 6.6 Eugene Parker 220 6.7 Olin Wilson 222 6.8 Stellar activity cycles 223 6.9 Paul Ledoux 229 ...
... rotated, creating constant stellar motion around the polar star. This structure was often linked to the ancient Chinese chariot—square with an umbrella canopy. The central pole, corresponding to P'an-ku's body, linked heaven and earth ...
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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