Unlocking the Secrets of White Dwarf Stars

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Van Horn, Hugh M. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Astronomers' Universe,
• Θέματα: Popular works.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.