Understanding Stellar Evolution (eBook)

Short versionHenny J G L M Lamers is Professor Emeritus in Astrophysics at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. He is a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary member of the American Astronomical Society.  Emily Levesque is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research accolades include a 2017 Alfred P Sloan fellowship in physics and 2014 Annie Jump Cannon research prize from the American Astronomical Society. Long versionHenny J G L M Lamers is Professor Emeritus in Astrophysics at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. He is a member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary member of the American Astronomical Society, Honorary Brittingham Chair at the University of Wisconsin (1989), Nominee Teacher of the Year of the Utrecht University, and received the Schmeits Award for Astronomy in the Netherlands (1980). He is author/editor of nine professional astronomy books and author of four popular astronomy books. Emily Levesque is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research accolades include a 2017 Alfred P Sloan fellowship in physics and 2014 Annie Jump Cannon research prize from the American Astronomical Society. She was both an Einstein and Hubble postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado, and received her PhD in astronomy from the University of Hawaii and her SB in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1 - Stars: setting the stage

2 - Observations of stellar parameters

3 - Hydrostatic equilibrium and its consequences

4 - Gas physics of stars

5 - Opacities in stars

6 - Radiative energy transfer

7 - Convective energy transport

8 - Nuclear fusion

9 - Stellar timescales

10 - Calculating stellar evolution

11 - Polytropic stars

12 - Star formation

13 - H fusion in the core: the main sequence phase

14 - Principles of post main sequence evolution

15 - Stellar winds and mass loss

16 - Shell H fusion in low mass stars: the red giant
phase

17 - Helium fusion in low mass stars: horizontal
branch stars

18 - Double shell fusion: Asymptotic Giant Brach
stars

19 - Post-AGB evolution and planetary nebulae

20 - White dwarfs and neutron stars

21 - Pulsating stars

22 - Observations of massive stars: evidence for
evolution with mass loss

23 - Evolution of massive stars of 8 – 25 Mʘ

24 - The evolution of massive stars of 25 – 120 Mʘ
: dominated by mass loss

25 - Rotation and stellar evolution

26 - Late evolution stages of massive stars

27 - Supernovae

28 - Principles of close binary evolution

29 - Close binaries: examples of evolution with mass
transfer

30 - Chemical yields: products of stellar evolution

Appendix A - Physical and astronomical constants

Appendix B - Stellar parameters

Appendix C - Solar Model

Appendix D - Main sequence from ZAMS to TAMS

Appendix E - Acronyms