New Light on Dark Stars Red Dwarfs, Low-Mass Stars, Brown Stars /

There has been very considerable progress in research into low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets during the past few years, particularly since the fist edtion of this book was published in 2000. In this new edtion the authors present a comprehensive review of both the astrophysical nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Reid, Neil (Autor), Hawley, Suzanne (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edición:2nd ed. 2005.
Colección:Astronomy and Planetary Sciences,
Temas:
Astronomy.
Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Astronomical concepts
  • Observational properties of low-mass dwarfs
  • The structure, formation and evolution of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs
  • The photosphere
  • Stellar activity
  • Brown dwarfs
  • A Galactic structure primer
  • The stellar luminosity function
  • The mass function
  • M dwarfs in the Galactic Halo
  • Extrasolar planets.

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