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Luminous hot stars represent the extreme upper mass end of normal stellar evolution. Before exploding as supernovae, they live out their lives of a few million years with prodigious outputs of radiation and stellar winds, dramatically affecting both their evolution and environments. A detailed intro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conti, P. S. (Peter S.)
Otros Autores: Crowther, Paul A., Leitherer, Claus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Colección:Cambridge astrophysics series ; 45.
Temas:
Starbursts.
Gamma ray bursts.
Stars > Evolution.
Stellar winds.
Sursauts de formation d'étoiles.
Sursauts gamma.
Étoiles > Évolution.
Vents stellaires.
SCIENCE > Cosmology.
Gamma ray bursts
Starbursts
Stars > Evolution
Stellar winds
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1.1 Motivation 1
  • 1.2 Observed properties 1
  • 1.3 Stellar atmospheres 5
  • 1.4 Stellar winds 5
  • 1.5 Evolution of single stars 7
  • 1.6 Binaries 9
  • 1.7 Birth of massive stars and star clusters 10
  • 1.8 The interstellar environment 11
  • 1.9 From GHII regions to starburst galaxies 12
  • 1.10 Starburst phenomena 14
  • 1.11 Cosmological implications 15
  • 2 Observed properties 17
  • 2.1 Apparent and absolute magnitudes 17
  • 2.2 Distances 19
  • 2.3 Massive stars in Local Group galaxies 21
  • 2.4 Spectral classification 35
  • 2.5 Observations of rotation and magnetic fields 45
  • 3 Stellar atmospheres 49
  • 3.1 LTE atmospheres 49
  • 3.2 Non-LTE atmospheres 50
  • 3.3 Surface gravities and masses 61
  • 3.4 Surface composition 62
  • 4 Stellar winds 67
  • 4.1 Radiation pressure 67
  • 4.2 Wind velocities 74
  • 4.3 Mass-loss rates 79
  • 4.4 Structure and clumping 90
  • 4.5 Influence of stellar rotation 95
  • 5 Evolution of single stars 99
  • 5.1 Nucleosynthesis 99
  • 5.2 Evolution to a red supergiant 102
  • 5.3 Evolution to the Wolf-Rayet stage 107
  • 5.4 Rotation and mass-loss 111
  • 5.5 Magnetic massive stars 115
  • 5.6 Core-collapse supernovae 116
  • 6 Binaries 129
  • 6.1 Massive binary frequency 129
  • 6.2 Binary masses 130
  • 6.3 Close binary evolution 133
  • 6.4 Interacting stellar winds 146
  • 6.5 Dust formation in WC stars 149
  • 7 Birth of massive stars and star clusters 154
  • 7.1 Natal precursors of OB stars 155
  • 7.2 The initial mass function 163
  • 7.3 Formation of high-mass stars 167
  • 7.4 Massive stellar clusters 170
  • 8 The interstellar environment 180
  • 8.1 Interstellar dust 180
  • 8.2 Ionized hydrogen regions 184
  • 8.3 Wind blown bubbles 187
  • 8.4 Ejecta nebulae around LBVs and W-R stars 192
  • 9 From giant HII regions to HII galaxies 197
  • 9.1 Giant HII regions: definition and structural parameters 197
  • 9.2 30 Doradus
  • the Rosetta Stone 200
  • 9.3 Stellar population diagnostics 208
  • 9.4 HII galaxies: stellar content and relation to starbursts 219
  • 10 Starburst phenomena 229
  • 10.1 Definition of a starburst 229
  • 10.2 The starburst IMF 231
  • 10.3 The evolution of starbursts 241
  • 10.4 Starburst-driven superwinds 250
  • 10.5 The starburst-AGN connection 255
  • 11 Cosmological implications 266
  • 11.1 Population III stars 266
  • 11.2 Lyman-break galaxies 272
  • 11.3 Massive stars and cosmic abundances 280
  • 11.4 Gamma ray bursts 287.

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