New Light on Dark Stars Red Dwarfs, Low-Mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs
Perhaps the most common question that a child asks when he or she sees the night sky from a dark site for the first time is: 'How many stars are there?' This happens to be a question which has exercised the intellectual skills of many astronomers over the course of most of the last century...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Springer London
2000, 2000
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2000 |
| Series: | Astronomy and Planetary Sciences
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Astronomical Concepts
- 2 Observational Properties of Low-Mass Dwarfs
- 3 The Structure, Formation and Evolution of Lowmass Stars and Brown Dwarfs
- 4 The Photosphere
- 5 Stellar Activity
- 6 A Galactic Structure Primer
- 7 The Stellar Luminosity Function
- 8 The Mass Function
- 9 Brown Dwarfs
- 10 Extrasolar Planets
- 11 M Dwarfs in the Galactic Halo
- Epilogue
- Appendix The 8-parsec sample
- A.1 Introduction
- A.2 References