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

Seitenzahl:

470

Gewicht:

1143 g

Erschienen bei:

Springer Verlag GmbH

Kurzbeschreibung

This book will present the first comprehensive discussion of both the astrophysical structure of individual M-dwarf and brown dwarf star, and their collective statistical properties as a Galactic stellar population. The first section of the book will discuss M-dwarfs and brown dwarfs as individual objects - their observational properties, formation, internal structure and atmospheres. The second section will deal with M-dwarfs from the Galactic perspective - the number of stars, their possible contribution to dark matter and the missing mass and their use as probes of the stellar populations that make up our Galaxy. TOC:Astronomical Concepts.- Basic Observational Properties of Low-Mass Dwarfs.- The Structure, Formation and Evolution of Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs.- The Photosphere.- Stellar Activity.- A Galactic Structure Primer.- The Stellar Luminosity Function.- The Mass Function.- Brown Dwarfs: New Light on Dark Stars.- Extrasolar Planets.- M-Dwarfs and Galactic Structure.- Appendix: The 8-parsec sample.- Index.- Colour plates section.

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Mehr von:  S. Hawley, Neill Reid, Springer Verlag GmbH