The Structure and Evolution of the Sun

• Main Author: Severino, Giuseppe (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astrophysics.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.

This book equips the reader with a coherent understanding of the structure of the Sun and its evolution and provides all the knowledge required to construct a simplified model of the Sun. The early chapters cover key aspects of basic physics and describe the Sun’s size, mass, luminosity, and tempera...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Some physics for everyone
• Chapter 2. Introduction to the Sun
• Chapter 3. The photosphere
• Chapter 4. The convection zone
• Chapter 5.  The radiation
• Chapter 6.  The core
• Chapter 7. Helioseismology
• Chapter 8. Recapitulation
• Chapter 9. Evolution
• Appendix. Some mathematics for everyone
• References.