LEADER 04758nam 22006855 450 001 9910300388203321 005 20200705172157.0 010 $a3-642-45384-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-642-45384-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000095046 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-642-45384-7 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001187297 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11753651 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001187297 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11256889 035 $a(PQKB)11617125 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6312003 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1697775 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1697775 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10976206 035 $a(OCoLC)874997277 035 $a(PPN)177823062 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000095046 100 $a20140313d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLife and Death of the Stars$b[electronic resource] /$fby Ganesan Srinivasan 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aBerlin, Heidelberg :$cSpringer Berlin Heidelberg :$cImprint: Springer,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (XVII, 225 p. 113 illus.) 225 1 $aUndergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,$x2192-4791 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a3-642-45383-X 327 $aPart I: A Historical Perspective -- What Are the Stars? -- Stars in Their Youth -- White Dwarf Stars -- The Principles of Statistical Mechanics -- Fermi?Dirac Distribution -- Quantum Stars -- The Chandrasekhar Limit -- The Absurd Behaviour of Stars: Not All Stars Will Have Energy to Cool -- Guest Stars -- Supernovae, Neutron Stars and Black Holes -- A Profile of Chandra -- Part II: The Life History of Stars?A Modern Perspective -- To Burn or Not To Burn -- What Does the Future Hold for the Sun? -- Life History of Intermediate Mass Stars -- Diamonds in the Sky -- Exploding Stars. 330 $aThis volume is devoted to one of the fascinating things about stars: how they evolve as they age. This evolution is different for stars of different masses. How stars end their lives when their supply of energy is exhausted also depends on their masses. Interestingly, astronomers conjectured about the ultimate fate of the stars even before the details of their evolution became clear. Part I of this book gives an account of the remarkable predictions made during the 1920s and 1930s concerning the ultimate fate of stars. Since much of this development hinged on quantum physics that emerged during this time, a detailed introduction to the relevant physics is included in the book. Part II is a summary of the life history of stars. This discussion is divided into three parts: low-mass stars, like our Sun, intermediate-mass stars, and massive stars. Many of the concepts of contemporary astrophysics were built on the foundation erected by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in the 1930s. This book, written during his birth centenary, includes a brief biographical sketch of the brilliant scientist, which readers will find fascinating. Reading this book will get young students excited about the presently unfolding revolution in astronomy and the challenges that await them in the world of physics, engineering and technology. General readers will also find the book appealing for its highly accessible narrative of the physics of stars.   This book is a companion volume of ?What are the Stars?? by the same author. "I know of no other book on the evolution of stars of a similar scope and breadth that is so accessible for undergraduate students." E P J van den Heuvel Professor of Astrophysics Winner of the Spinoza and Descartes PrizesUniversity of Amsterdam, The Netherlands      . 410 0$aUndergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,$x2192-4791 606 $aAstrophysics 606 $aObservations, Astronomical 606 $aAstronomy?Observations 606 $aAstrophysics and Astroparticles$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22022 606 $aAstronomy, Observations and Techniques$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22014 615 0$aAstrophysics. 615 0$aObservations, Astronomical. 615 0$aAstronomy?Observations. 615 14$aAstrophysics and Astroparticles. 615 24$aAstronomy, Observations and Techniques. 676 $a523.88 686 $a520$2sdnb 686 $aUS 4000$2rvk 700 $aSrinivasan$b Ganesan$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0792012 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910300388203321 996 $aLife and Death of the Stars$91770883 997 $aUNINA