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An introduction to

Sun and stars


Edited by Simon F.Greervand Hark H. Jones

Authors:
s.jocelyn Bell Burnell
Simon F. Green
Barrie W.Jones
Mark H.jones
Robert J. A. Lambourne
John czarnecki

The Open
University

CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
CONTENTS

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COMfPTEt 1 SEEING THE SON 7
1.1 Introduction 7
1.2 Seeing the Sun's surface 7
1.3 Seeing the Sun's inner atmosphere 18
1.4 Seeing the Sun's outer atmosphere 30
1.5 Summary of Chapter 1 39
CSKJAfPTE! 2 TSH1E WOlBCiiKlC SOW 43
2.1 Introduction 43
2.2 Inside the Sun 43
2.3 Solar activity 62
2.4 The Sun in space 74
2.5 Summary of Chapter 2 81
COMFiTE! 3 IMIEASOTOWiS STAiS SS
3.1 Introduction 85
3.2 Stars in space 86
. 3.3 The stars as bodies 99
3.4 Summary of Chapter 3 125
C M A P T E 1 4 COt^PASSOKlC SYAB8S • 129
4.1 Introduction 129
4.2 The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram 129
4.3 Observing through the interstellar medium 141
4.4 Summary of Chapter 4 148
CHAPTE1 5 TiKSE FOOSftfflATflOM C®F STA1S 151
5.1 Introduction 151
5.2 Conception 151
5.3 Starbirth 160
5.4 Summary of Chapter 5 173
CHAPTEB8 6 THE MMM SECMUiEMCE LIFE ©IF STA1S 175
6.1 Introduction 175
6.2 Stellar structure 175
6.3 Nuclear reactions 184
6.4 Stellar masses 190
6.5 Summary of Chapter 6 195
CWAPTE08 7 TME OPE ©IF STAGES S E W N © THE WflAflW
SEQUENCE 197
7.1 Introduction 197
7.2 Post main sequence lifetime of low-mass stars 197
7.3 Post main sequence lifetime of high-mass stars 208
7.4 Summary of Chapter 7 216
CHAPTER § TME ©EATO ©F STAU8S 219
8.1 Introduction 219
8.2 The death of low-mass stars 219
8.3 The death of high-mass stars 223
8.4 Feeding the interstellar medium 234
8.5 Summary of Chapter 8 240
ClKIAIPTEiS 9 TlHiE (SEIMl^AMTS ©F ST^ilS 243
9.1 Introduction 243
9.2 White dwarfs 243
9.3 Neutron stars 247
9.4 Black holes 261
9.5 Stellar remnants in binary systems 264
9.6 Summary of Chapter 9 278
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APlP£lr®l]€ES 328
Appendix Al Useful quantities and units 328
Appendix A2 Stellar nomenclature 329
Appendix A3 The 100 closest stars to the Sun 333
Appendix A4 The 100 brightest stars visible from Earth 337
Appendix A5 The chemical elements and their abundances 341
CELOSSAffiY 34S

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ACKMOWILEIDGEftfflENTS 36©

FCCUilE 1EFEIEMCES 364


0MPE1S 366

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