Evolution of Peculiar Red Giant Stars
Evolution of Peculiar Red Giant Stars

Author: International Astronomical Union. Colloquium

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-06-22

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780521366175

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Red giant stars are evolutionarily advanced objects in the closing stages of their nuclear burning lifetime. Observed with increasing spectral coverage they display a variety of unusual phenomena. Many are characterized by peculiar (non-solar) surface chemical compositions which provide otherwise unobtainable clues to interior nucleosynthesis, mixing and evolution. Others may have received their chemical peculiarities by mass transfer from a companion. This book reports on the proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Colloquium 106. It contains discussions on many aspects of these stars, combining theory and observation to interpret these objects in terms of their evolutionary history. There are 20 review papers, 69 abstracts and short contributed papers and a complete transcript of the valuable summary panel discussion. Professional astronomers will find this book useful as a reference work which incorporates current research on the modelling and evolution of these unstable stars.

Evolution of Peculiar Red Giant Stars
Evolution of Peculiar Red Giant Stars

Author: Hollis R. Johnson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-06-22

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780521366175

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This report of the proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Colloquium 106 contains discussions on many aspects of Red Giant Stars. The book combines theory and observation to interpret these objects in terms of their evolutionary history. Red Giant Stars are evolutionarily advanced objects in the closing stages of their nuclear burning lifetime. Observed with increasing spectral coverage, they display a variety of unusual phenomena. Many are characterized by peculiar (non-solar) surface chemical compositions that provide otherwise unobtainable clues to interior nucleosynthesis, mixing and evolution. Others may have received their chemical peculiarities by mass transfer from a companion. There are 20 review papers, 69 abstracts and short contributed papers and a complete transcript of the valuable summary panel discussion. Professional astronomers and research students will find this a useful reference work.

Literature 1989, Part 1
Literature 1989, Part 1

Author: Astronomisches Rechen-Institut

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 1433

ISBN-13: 3662123703

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From the reviews: "Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts has appeared in semi-annual volumes since 1969 and it has already become one of the fundemental publications in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics and neighbouring sciences. It is the most important English-language abstracting journal in the mentioned branches. ...The abstracts are classified under more than a hundred subject categories, thus permitting a quick survey of the whole extended material. The AAA is a valuable and important publication for all students and scientists working in the fields of astronomy and related sciences. As such it represents a necessary ingredient of any astronomical library all over the world." Space Science Review# "Dividing the whole field plus related subjects into 108 categories, each work is numbered and most are accompanied by brief abstracts. Fairly comprehensive cross-referencing links relevant papers to more than one category, and exhaustive author and subject indices are to be found at the back, making the catalogues easy to use. The series appears to be so complete in its coverage and always less than a year out of date that I shall certainly have to make a little more space on those shelves for future volumes." The Observatory Magazine#

The Carbon Star Phenomenon
The Carbon Star Phenomenon

Author: International Astronomical Union. Symposium

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2000-07-31

Total Pages: 672

ISBN-13: 9780792363460

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Proceedings of the 177th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union, held in Antalya, Turkey, May 27-31, 1996

Planetary Nebulae
Planetary Nebulae

Author: R. Weinberger

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 9401120889

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Planetary nebulae are a keystone for the understanding of the evolution of stars, for deep insights into the physical processes prevailing in highly excited dilute nebulae, and for the chemical evolution in galaxies. These objects, displaying an intriguing morphology, have a `short' lifetime of a few tens of thousands of years, and have become one of the best studied classes of celestial sources. However, despite large and successful efforts from both the observational and theoretical side, planetary nebulae still keep some of their secrets (like the widely unknown distances) and will undoubtedly also be objects of thorough investigations in the years to come.