• Media type: Book
  • Title: Life and death of the stars
  • Contains: A historical perspective. What are the stars? ; Stars in their youth ; White dwarf stars ; The principles of statistical mechanics ; Fermi-Dirac distribution ; Quantum stars ; The Chandrasekhar limit ; The absurd behaviour of stars : not all stars will have energy to cool ; Guest stars ; Supernovae, neutron stars and black holes ; A profile of ChandraThe life history of stars : a modern perspective ; To burn or not to burn ; What does the future hold for the sun? ; Life history of intermediate mass stars ; Diamonds in the sky ; Exploding stars.
  • Contributor: Srinivasan, Ganesan [Author]
  • imprint: Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer, 2014
  • Published in: Undergraduate lecture notes in physics
  • Extent: XVII, 225 S.; Ill., graph. Darst; 24 cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 364245383X; 9783642453830
  • Publisher, production or purchase order numbers: Sonstige Nummer: 86243176
  • RVK notation: US 4000 : Allgemeines
  • Keywords: Sternentwicklung
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  • Footnote: Literaturangaben
  • Description: Examines the evolution of stars as they age and how their ultimate fates depend on their masses.--

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