Pulsating Stars /

• Main Authors: Catelan, Márcio (Author), Smith, Horace A. (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim [Germany] : Wiley-VCH, [2015]
• Subjects: Pulsating stars.; SCIENCE > Astronomy.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• Historical overview
• Fundamentals of stellar variability observations
• Classification of variable stars
• Stellar structure and evolution theory
• Stellar pulsation theory
• RR Lyrae stars
• Cepheid and related variable stars
• Red variable stars
• Pulsating stars close to the lower main sequence in the H-R diagram
• Pulsating stars close to the upper main sequence in the H-R diagram
• Pulsating supergiant stars
• Hot subdwarf pulsators
• Pulsating degenerate stars.