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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... 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 Variable Stars (I) The Double-Star ...
... Variable Stars (II) The Early Studies of Stellar 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 ...
... variables Periodic variations of δ Cephei Rotational velocities for different classes of stars Otto Struve Ludwig Biermann The solar dynamo Leon Mestel Lyman Spitzer, Jr. The four stages of star formation 104 109 111 113 116 117 118 119 ...
... variable stars, for example, may want to read just section 3.3 and then follow this up with the subsequent developments presented in sections 4.6, 5.6, and 6.5. We therefore suggest that the reader first consult the table of contents if ...
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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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A Concise History of Solar and Stellar Physics Jean-Louis Tassoul,Monique Tassoul Limited preview - 2014 |
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