New Light on Dark Stars

Red Dwarfs, Low-Mass Stars, Brown Stars
2. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-3-540-25124-8
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1166 g

Reihe: Springer Praxis Books

There has been considerable progress in research into low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets in the years since the first edition of this book was published in 2000. In this new edition the authors present a comprehensive review of both the astrophysical nature of individual red dwarf and brown dwarf stars and their collective statistical properties as an important Galactic stellar population. Chapters dealing with the observational properties of low-mass dwarfs, the stellar mass function and extrasolar planets have been completely revised. Other chapters have been updated, including important new material on observational techniques, stellar activity, the Galactic halo and field star surveys. The authors detail the many recent discoveries of new brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets and provide a state-of-the-art review of our current knowledge of very low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets, including both the latest observational results and theoretical work.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawley, Suzanne

Reid, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Galaxien und Sterne
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.