Unlocking the Secrets of White Dwarf Stars

White dwarfs, each containing about as much mass as our Sun but packed into a volume about the size of Earth, are the endpoints of evolution for most stars. Thousands of these faint objects have now been discovered, though only a century ago only three were known. They are among the most common star...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van Horn, Hugh M. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Colección:Astronomers' Universe,
Temas:
Astronomy.
Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter One: The First Clues
  • Chapter Two: "A Star the Size of the Earth? Absurd!"
  • Chapter Three: Great Balls of Fire
  • Chapter Four: Relativity, Wave-Particle Duality, and the Nature of the White Dwarfs
  • Chapter Five: Star Power
  • Chapter Six: Still Pretty Hot, for a Fading Old Star!
  • Chapter Seven: Stalking the Wild White Dwarfs
  • Chapter Eight: The Peculiar Spectra of White Dwarfs
  • Chapter Nine: Interlude: Crossing the Digital Divide
  • Chapter Ten: How to Make a White Dwarf
  • Chapter Eleven: Diamonds in the Sky
  • Chapter Twelve: "The Envelope, Please!"
  • Chapter Thirteen: Leaping into Space
  • Chapter Fourteen: Decoding the Spectra of the White Dwarfs
  • Chapter Fifteen: The Secrets in the Spectra
  • Chapter Sixteen: Understanding the White-Dwarf Menagerie
  • Chapter Seventeen: Music of the Spheres
  • Chapter Eighteen: The Whole Earth Telescope and Asteroseismology
  • Chapter Nineteen: Magnetic Personalities
  • Chapter Twenty: Odd Couples
  • Chapter Twenty-One: White Dwarfs and the Nature of the Milky Way Galaxy
  • Chapter twenty-two: White Dwarfs and Cosmology
  • Appendices.

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