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

• Main Authors: Reid, I. Neill (Author), Hawley, Suzanne L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.