The Vixen Star Book User Guide [[electronic resource] ] : How to Use the Star Book TEN and the Original Star Book / / by James Chen, Adam Chen |
Autore | Chen James |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 520 |
Collana | The Patrick Moore Practical Astronomy Series |
Soggetto topico |
Astronomy
Observations, Astronomical Astronomy - Observations Software engineering Popular Science in Astronomy Astronomy, Observations and Techniques Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems |
ISBN | 3-319-21593-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Brief History of Vixen Computerized Telescope Mounts for Amateurs -- Backyard Astronomy Basics -- Introduction to the Star Book-TEN -- Basic Operation of the Star Book-TEN -- Learned Lessons in Using the Star Book-TEN -- Introduction to the Original Star Book -- Basic Operation of the Star Book -- Learned Lessons in Using the Star Book -- Notes on the Star Book-One and Star Book-S systems -- Accessories for Vixen Mounts -- Mounting Other Optical Tubes on the Vixen Mounts -- Maintenance and Care of the Star Book mounts. |
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Chen James | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 | ||
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Wacky and Wonderful Misconceptions About Our Universe [[electronic resource] /] / by Geoffrey Kirby |
Autore | Kirby Geoffrey |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 pages) |
Disciplina | 520 |
Collana | Astronomers' Universe |
Soggetto topico |
Astronomy
Observations, Astronomical Astronomy—Observations History Cosmology Popular Science in Astronomy Astronomy, Observations and Techniques History of Science |
ISBN | 3-319-73022-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Sun and Its Solar System -- A Sexy Musical Pool Game? Chapter 3: Our Three Wacky Inner Planets -- Imaginary, Delusionary and Inhabited -- Chapter 4: Earth -- Flat, Hollow or Inside Out? -- Chapter 5: Our Moon - Inhabited, Small and Icy -- Chapter 6: Mars: Inhabited and a Threat? -- Chapter 7: Solar System Rubble: The Home of Princess Moon Owl? -- Chapter 8: The Outer Planets -- Forests of Hemp, Armadas of Seamen and the Holy Foreskin of Jesus -- Chapter 9: Wackiness Beyond the Solar System -- Chapter 10: Is It Wacky to Believe in Astrology and UFOs? -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300552403321 |
Kirby Geoffrey | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 | ||
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Water Snowline in Protoplanetary Disks [[electronic resource] /] / by Shota Notsu |
Autore | Notsu Shota |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 134 p. 53 illus., 51 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 520 |
Collana | Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research |
Soggetto topico |
Observations, Astronomical
Astronomy—Observations Planetary science Astronomy, Observations and Techniques Planetary Sciences |
ISBN | 981-15-7439-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Modeling Studies I. The Case of the T Tauri Star -- Modeling studies II. The Case of the Herbig Ae Star -- Modeling Studies III. Sub-millimeter H216O and H218O Lines -- ALMA Observation of the Protoplanetary Disk around HD 163296 -- Summary and Future Works. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910427688303321 |
Notsu Shota | ||
Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 | ||
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Water Snowline in Protoplanetary Disks [[electronic resource] /] / by Shota Notsu |
Autore | Notsu Shota |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 134 p. 53 illus., 51 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 520 |
Collana | Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research |
Soggetto topico |
Observations, Astronomical
Astronomy—Observations Planetary science Astronomy, Observations and Techniques Planetary Sciences |
ISBN | 981-15-7439-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Modeling Studies I. The Case of the T Tauri Star -- Modeling studies II. The Case of the Herbig Ae Star -- Modeling Studies III. Sub-millimeter H216O and H218O Lines -- ALMA Observation of the Protoplanetary Disk around HD 163296 -- Summary and Future Works. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996418450403316 |
Notsu Shota | ||
Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 | ||
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What are the Stars? [[electronic resource] /] / by Ganesan Srinivasan |
Autore | Srinivasan Ganesan |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XLV, 177 p. 105 illus.) |
Disciplina | 523.8 |
Collana | Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics |
Soggetto topico |
Astrophysics
Observations, Astronomical Astronomy - Observations Astrophysics and Astroparticles Astronomy, Observations and Techniques |
ISBN | 3-642-45302-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The Present Revolution in Astronomy: An Overview -- What Are the Stars? -- Stars as Globes of Gas -- Eddington’s Theory of the Stars -- Why Are the Stars as They Are? -- Energy Generation in the Stars -- Sounds of the Sun -- The Smoking Gun is Finally Found. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300387903321 |
Srinivasan Ganesan | ||
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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White Dwarfs [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on White Dwarfs Held at Kiel, Germany, 29 August – 1 September 1994 / / edited by Detlev Koester, Klaus Werner |
Edizione | [1st ed. 1995.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XII, 348 p. 34 illus.) |
Disciplina | 523.8/87 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Physics |
Soggetto topico |
Observations, Astronomical
Astronomy—Observations Astrophysics Geophysics Astronomy, Observations and Techniques Astrophysics and Astroparticles Geophysics/Geodesy |
ISBN | 3-540-49202-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Thirty years of white dwarf research in retrospect -- The mass distribution and luminosity function of hot DA white dwarfs -- The stellar formation rate and the white dwarf luminosity function -- On the luminosity function of white dwarfs in wide binaries -- A new determination of the luminosity function of hot white dwarfs -- The luminosity function of dim white dwarfs -- Theoretical white dwarf luminosity functions: DA models -- Cool White Dwarfs in a southern proper motions survey -- The born again AGB phenomenon -- What is wrong with stellar modeling -- Transformation of AGB stars into white dwarfs -- The role of G in the cooling of white dwarfs -- Calibrating white dwarf cosmochronology -- Thermodynamic quantities for evolutionary and pulsational calculations -- Numerical simulations of convection and overshoot in the envelope of DA white dwarfs -- The formation of massive white dwarfs and the progenitor mass of Sirius B -- HST observations of white dwarf cooling sequences in open clusters -- Effects of updated neutrino rates in evolutionary white dwarf models -- Non-LTE line blanketed model atmospheres of hot, metal-rich white dwarfs -- New He I line profiles for synthetic spectra of DB white dwarfs -- Line broadening in hot stellar atmospheres -- Diffusion in PG 1159 stars -- Pure hydrogen in the spectrum of GD229 -- Spectroscopic effects of T-inhomogeneities in the atmospheres of DA white dwarfs -- The ? line polarization in magnetic white dwarfs -- Compton scattering in stellar atmospheres at T eff below 100 000 K -- Hydrogen absorption in high field magnetic white dwarfs -- LTE for the analysis of white dwarfs? -- Spherically symmetric and plane parallel NLTE model atmospheres for hot high gravity stars -- The influence of the bound-free opacity on the radiation from magnetic DA white dwarfs -- Models of 3 magnetic white dwarf stars in flux and polarization -- Cyclotron absorption coefficients in the Stokes formalism -- IUE Echelle observations of the photospheres and circumstellar environments of hot white dwarfs -- The mass distribution of DA white dwarfs -- PG 1159 stars and their evolutionary link to DO white dwarfs -- Detection of ultra-hot pre-white dwarfs -- White dwarfs in old planetary nebulae -- New analyses of helium-rich pre-white dwarfs -- The high mass white dwarf in HR 8210 -- The blue edge of the ZZ Ceti instability strip -- L745-46A: Lyman alpha broadening and metal abundances -- A model for the WC-type central star WR 72 -- White dwarf observations with the ultraviolet imaging telescope -- LB 8827: A DB star with peculiar line profiles -- Magnetic or pressure shifts of carbon bands in very cool helium-rich white dwarfs? -- IUE and optical observations of DAO white dwarfs -- CD-38° 10980 revisited -- Analysis of the DO white dwarf PG 1034+001: Solution of the He II 4686Å line problem -- Upper limits for mass-loss rates of PG 1159 stars -- Exposed white dwarfs in dwarf novae -- The spatial and kinematic distributions of field hot subdwarfs -- Fundamental properties of magnetic white dwarfs in CVs -- Searching for binary white dwarfs: A progress report -- Iron- and nickel abundances of sdO stars -- The HST white dwarf project: V 471 Tauri and Procyon B -- The interacting binary white dwarfs -- GD1401 and GD984: X-ray binaries with degenerate components -- The white dwarf in AM Her -- The final results of: A NLTE analysis of the helium-rich sdO stars in the Palomar Green survey of high galactic latitude blue objects -- 3He- and metal anomalies in subluminous B stars -- HST observations of the white dwarf in V471 Tauri -- Hot stars in globular clusters -- From interacting binary systems to DB white dwarfs -- White dwarfs in AM CVn systems -- Hot subdwarf stars in binary systems -- CCD imaging, optical spectroscopy and UBVRIJHK photometry of cool companions to hot subdwarfs -- The multi-periodic pulsating PG1159 white dwarf PG0122+200 -- Asteroseismology of DA white dwarf stars -- The hydrogen layer mass of the ZZ Ceti stars -- Grasping at the hot end of ZZ Ceti variability -- WET experiences in Central Asian observatories -- The vista for seismological thermometry of the DBV white dwarfs -- Ionized helium and carbon in the DBV GD358 -- Stabilized restoration of pulsating white dwarf spectra -- Extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of white dwarfs -- White dwarfs in close binaries in the extreme ultraviolet explorer all-sky survey -- Constraints on DAO white dwarf composition from the ROSAT EUV survey -- Spectroscopy of the lyman continuum of hot DAs using the extreme ultraviolet explorer -- An EUV selected sample of DA white dwarfs -- The EUVE spectrum of the hot DA white dwarf PG 1234+482 -- ORFEUS and EUVE observations of the cool DO HD 149499 B -- ROSAT studies of DA white dwarfs and the calibration of the PSPC detector. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910257399603321 |
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1995 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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White Dwarfs [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on White Dwarfs Held at Kiel, Germany, 29 August – 1 September 1994 / / edited by Detlev Koester, Klaus Werner |
Edizione | [1st ed. 1995.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XII, 348 p. 34 illus.) |
Disciplina | 523.8/87 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Physics |
Soggetto topico |
Observations, Astronomical
Astronomy—Observations Astrophysics Geophysics Astronomy, Observations and Techniques Astrophysics and Astroparticles Geophysics/Geodesy |
ISBN | 3-540-49202-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Thirty years of white dwarf research in retrospect -- The mass distribution and luminosity function of hot DA white dwarfs -- The stellar formation rate and the white dwarf luminosity function -- On the luminosity function of white dwarfs in wide binaries -- A new determination of the luminosity function of hot white dwarfs -- The luminosity function of dim white dwarfs -- Theoretical white dwarf luminosity functions: DA models -- Cool White Dwarfs in a southern proper motions survey -- The born again AGB phenomenon -- What is wrong with stellar modeling -- Transformation of AGB stars into white dwarfs -- The role of G in the cooling of white dwarfs -- Calibrating white dwarf cosmochronology -- Thermodynamic quantities for evolutionary and pulsational calculations -- Numerical simulations of convection and overshoot in the envelope of DA white dwarfs -- The formation of massive white dwarfs and the progenitor mass of Sirius B -- HST observations of white dwarf cooling sequences in open clusters -- Effects of updated neutrino rates in evolutionary white dwarf models -- Non-LTE line blanketed model atmospheres of hot, metal-rich white dwarfs -- New He I line profiles for synthetic spectra of DB white dwarfs -- Line broadening in hot stellar atmospheres -- Diffusion in PG 1159 stars -- Pure hydrogen in the spectrum of GD229 -- Spectroscopic effects of T-inhomogeneities in the atmospheres of DA white dwarfs -- The ? line polarization in magnetic white dwarfs -- Compton scattering in stellar atmospheres at T eff below 100 000 K -- Hydrogen absorption in high field magnetic white dwarfs -- LTE for the analysis of white dwarfs? -- Spherically symmetric and plane parallel NLTE model atmospheres for hot high gravity stars -- The influence of the bound-free opacity on the radiation from magnetic DA white dwarfs -- Models of 3 magnetic white dwarf stars in flux and polarization -- Cyclotron absorption coefficients in the Stokes formalism -- IUE Echelle observations of the photospheres and circumstellar environments of hot white dwarfs -- The mass distribution of DA white dwarfs -- PG 1159 stars and their evolutionary link to DO white dwarfs -- Detection of ultra-hot pre-white dwarfs -- White dwarfs in old planetary nebulae -- New analyses of helium-rich pre-white dwarfs -- The high mass white dwarf in HR 8210 -- The blue edge of the ZZ Ceti instability strip -- L745-46A: Lyman alpha broadening and metal abundances -- A model for the WC-type central star WR 72 -- White dwarf observations with the ultraviolet imaging telescope -- LB 8827: A DB star with peculiar line profiles -- Magnetic or pressure shifts of carbon bands in very cool helium-rich white dwarfs? -- IUE and optical observations of DAO white dwarfs -- CD-38° 10980 revisited -- Analysis of the DO white dwarf PG 1034+001: Solution of the He II 4686Å line problem -- Upper limits for mass-loss rates of PG 1159 stars -- Exposed white dwarfs in dwarf novae -- The spatial and kinematic distributions of field hot subdwarfs -- Fundamental properties of magnetic white dwarfs in CVs -- Searching for binary white dwarfs: A progress report -- Iron- and nickel abundances of sdO stars -- The HST white dwarf project: V 471 Tauri and Procyon B -- The interacting binary white dwarfs -- GD1401 and GD984: X-ray binaries with degenerate components -- The white dwarf in AM Her -- The final results of: A NLTE analysis of the helium-rich sdO stars in the Palomar Green survey of high galactic latitude blue objects -- 3He- and metal anomalies in subluminous B stars -- HST observations of the white dwarf in V471 Tauri -- Hot stars in globular clusters -- From interacting binary systems to DB white dwarfs -- White dwarfs in AM CVn systems -- Hot subdwarf stars in binary systems -- CCD imaging, optical spectroscopy and UBVRIJHK photometry of cool companions to hot subdwarfs -- The multi-periodic pulsating PG1159 white dwarf PG0122+200 -- Asteroseismology of DA white dwarf stars -- The hydrogen layer mass of the ZZ Ceti stars -- Grasping at the hot end of ZZ Ceti variability -- WET experiences in Central Asian observatories -- The vista for seismological thermometry of the DBV white dwarfs -- Ionized helium and carbon in the DBV GD358 -- Stabilized restoration of pulsating white dwarf spectra -- Extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy of white dwarfs -- White dwarfs in close binaries in the extreme ultraviolet explorer all-sky survey -- Constraints on DAO white dwarf composition from the ROSAT EUV survey -- Spectroscopy of the lyman continuum of hot DAs using the extreme ultraviolet explorer -- An EUV selected sample of DA white dwarfs -- The EUVE spectrum of the hot DA white dwarf PG 1234+482 -- ORFEUS and EUVE observations of the cool DO HD 149499 B -- ROSAT studies of DA white dwarfs and the calibration of the PSPC detector. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996466689703316 |
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1995 | ||
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White Dwarfs [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 114, Held at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, August 15–19, 1988 / / edited by Gary Wegner |
Edizione | [1st ed. 1989.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIV, 526 p. 166 illus.) |
Disciplina | 523.8/87 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Physics |
Soggetto topico |
Observations, Astronomical
Astronomy—Observations Astrophysics Geophysics Astronomy, Observations and Techniques Astrophysics and Astroparticles Geophysics/Geodesy |
ISBN | 3-540-46136-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Mass distribution and luminosity function of white dwarfs -- The luminosity function of white dwarfs in the local disk and halo -- Two new late-type degenerates: Implications for the white dwarf luminosity function -- Pre-white dwarf evolution: Up to planetary nebulae -- Evolution of white dwarfs: Starting from planetary nebulae -- On the structure of pre-white dwarfs -- Transport processes and neutrino emission processes in the interior of white dwarfs -- The effect of Coulomb interactions on the helium flash -- Equations of state of hydrogen-helium and carbon-oxygen mixtures -- Gravitational collapse of mass-accreting white dwarfs -- The temperatures of white dwarfs in accreting binaries -- White dwarf evolution in real time: What pulsating white dwarfs teach us about stellar evolution -- The whole earth telescope -- The effects of time dependant convection on white dwarf radial pulsations -- PG 1707+427: The DOV star with the simplest fourier transform -- Observations of cold degenerate stars -- Two new faint common proper motion pairs -- Cluster analysis of the hot subdwarfs in the PG survey -- An unsuccessful search for white dwarf companions to nearby main sequence stars -- The Bologna/ESO search for double degenerates -- Far ultraviolet observations of hot DA white dwarfs -- Far-ultraviolet spectrophotometry of two do white dwarfs from Voyager -- A spectrophotometric atlas of white dwarfs compiled from the me archives -- Scaleheights of low mass stars from the luminosity function of the local white dwarfs -- ROSAT — an all-sky X-ray and EUV survey of white dwarfs -- Results of a spectrophotometric survey of white dwarf suspects in the solar neighbourhood -- Three double degenerate candidates -- The ccd/transit instrument (CTI) blue objectsurvey -- Low mass hydrogen envelopes and the DB gap -- Diffusion and metal abundances in hot white dwarfs -- Helium abundance in the photospheres of hot DA white dwarfs -- Non-LTE spectral analysis of PG 1159-035 -- X-ray emission from hot DA white dwarfs; EXOSAT results, and implications for atmospheric models -- The effect of CNO metal abundances on the soft X-ray emission from HE rich white dwarfs -- Chemical stratification in white dwarf atmospheres and envelopes -- Origin of the DA and non-DA white dwarf stars -- Model atmospheres for very cool hydrogen-rich white dwarfs -- An ultraviolet look at the blue edge of the ZZ ceti instability strip -- Spectroscopic studies and atmospheric parameters OF ZZ Ceti stars -- Finite element analysis of diffusion processes in white dwarfs -- Heavy element abundances predicted by radiative support theory in the atmospheres of hot white dwarfs -- Second-order effects due to rotation in pulsating DR white dwarfs -- Are pulsatiohs a useful probe of the structure of the outer layers of white dwarfs ? -- Cooling of white dwarfs with account of non-equilibrium beta-processes -- Thermonuclear explosion in binaries: White dwarf helium star -- The phase diagram of high density binary mixtures and the luminosity function of single white dwarfs -- A variational approach to understanding white dwarf evolution -- The effect of varying helium and hydrogen layer masses on the pulsation properties of white dwarf models -- Discovery of the sixth dbv star: CBS 114 -- Optical frequencies in V471 Tau -- The time dependence of the phases of the harmonics relative to the 1490 sec fundamental in PG1346+082 -- A new hydrogen equation of state for low mass stars -- Magnetic fields in white dwarfs -- The magnetic white dwarfs in AM Her variables -- Evidence of complex field structure in the magnetic white dwarf in EXO 033319-2554.2 -- Phase correlated spectra of magnetic white dwarfs -- Synthetic spectra of magnetic white dwarfs -- Masses and magnetic fields of white dwarfs in cataclysmic variables -- G117-1115A: how is it evolving? -- Pressure shifts of metal lines in cool white dwarfs -- A new temperature determination for sirius B from IUE: Implications for the observed soft X-ray fluxes -- The detection of ionized helium and carbon in the pulsating DB degenerate GD358 -- Time-dependent studies of the settling of heavy elements in the envelopes of cool white dwarfs -- The atmospheric composition of the hot pre-degenerate star H1504+65 revisited -- Stratified model atmospheres for not DA white dwarfs -- An explanation for the euv spectrum of feige 24 -- Gravitational redshifts for hyades white dwarfs -- The high resolution spectrum of the pulsating, pre-white dwarf star PG 1159-035 (GW VIR) -- Polarized radiation from inhomogeneous accretion columns in am herculis binaries -- Thomson scattering in magnetic fields -- H-alpha emission in hot degenerates and OB subdwarfs -- Gravitational redshifts and the mass-radius relation -- The search for close binary evolved stars -- The nearby binary, Stein 2051 (G175-34AB) -- White dwarfs in globular clusters -- Toward a determination of the helium abundance in cool DA white dwarfs -- Constraints on the atmospheric parameters of the binary DA white dwarf L870-2 (EG11) -- The white dwarf mass and orbital period distribution in zero-age cataclysmic binaries -- The optical spectra of V803 Cen -- The period problem of the interacting binary white dwarf system AM CVn -- Critical mass for merging in double white dwarfs -- On the separations of common proper motion binaries containing white dwarfs -- Time resolved spectroscopy of AM CVn -- High frequency oscillations in SS CYGNI -- The mass spectrum of the white dwarfs in cataclysmic binaries -- Evolution of low-mass helium dwarfs in interacting binaries: Application to 4UI820-30 -- Binary, pulsating, and irregular variables among planetary nuclei -- On the formation of close binary white dwarfs -- A limit on the space density of short-period binary white dwarfs -- On the masses of the white dwarfs in classical nova systems -- Growth rate of white dwarf mass in binaries -- Dynamic mass exchange in doubly degenerate binaries. II. The importance of nuclear energy release -- The coalescence of white dwarfs and type I supernovae -- White dwarf — accretion disk boundary layers -- High resolution optical spectra of 120 white dwarfs. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910257436303321 |
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1989 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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White Dwarfs [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of IAU Colloquium No. 114, Held at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, August 15–19, 1988 / / edited by Gary Wegner |
Edizione | [1st ed. 1989.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1989 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIV, 526 p. 166 illus.) |
Disciplina | 523.8/87 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Physics |
Soggetto topico |
Observations, Astronomical
Astronomy—Observations Astrophysics Geophysics Astronomy, Observations and Techniques Astrophysics and Astroparticles Geophysics/Geodesy |
ISBN | 3-540-46136-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Mass distribution and luminosity function of white dwarfs -- The luminosity function of white dwarfs in the local disk and halo -- Two new late-type degenerates: Implications for the white dwarf luminosity function -- Pre-white dwarf evolution: Up to planetary nebulae -- Evolution of white dwarfs: Starting from planetary nebulae -- On the structure of pre-white dwarfs -- Transport processes and neutrino emission processes in the interior of white dwarfs -- The effect of Coulomb interactions on the helium flash -- Equations of state of hydrogen-helium and carbon-oxygen mixtures -- Gravitational collapse of mass-accreting white dwarfs -- The temperatures of white dwarfs in accreting binaries -- White dwarf evolution in real time: What pulsating white dwarfs teach us about stellar evolution -- The whole earth telescope -- The effects of time dependant convection on white dwarf radial pulsations -- PG 1707+427: The DOV star with the simplest fourier transform -- Observations of cold degenerate stars -- Two new faint common proper motion pairs -- Cluster analysis of the hot subdwarfs in the PG survey -- An unsuccessful search for white dwarf companions to nearby main sequence stars -- The Bologna/ESO search for double degenerates -- Far ultraviolet observations of hot DA white dwarfs -- Far-ultraviolet spectrophotometry of two do white dwarfs from Voyager -- A spectrophotometric atlas of white dwarfs compiled from the me archives -- Scaleheights of low mass stars from the luminosity function of the local white dwarfs -- ROSAT — an all-sky X-ray and EUV survey of white dwarfs -- Results of a spectrophotometric survey of white dwarf suspects in the solar neighbourhood -- Three double degenerate candidates -- The ccd/transit instrument (CTI) blue objectsurvey -- Low mass hydrogen envelopes and the DB gap -- Diffusion and metal abundances in hot white dwarfs -- Helium abundance in the photospheres of hot DA white dwarfs -- Non-LTE spectral analysis of PG 1159-035 -- X-ray emission from hot DA white dwarfs; EXOSAT results, and implications for atmospheric models -- The effect of CNO metal abundances on the soft X-ray emission from HE rich white dwarfs -- Chemical stratification in white dwarf atmospheres and envelopes -- Origin of the DA and non-DA white dwarf stars -- Model atmospheres for very cool hydrogen-rich white dwarfs -- An ultraviolet look at the blue edge of the ZZ ceti instability strip -- Spectroscopic studies and atmospheric parameters OF ZZ Ceti stars -- Finite element analysis of diffusion processes in white dwarfs -- Heavy element abundances predicted by radiative support theory in the atmospheres of hot white dwarfs -- Second-order effects due to rotation in pulsating DR white dwarfs -- Are pulsatiohs a useful probe of the structure of the outer layers of white dwarfs ? -- Cooling of white dwarfs with account of non-equilibrium beta-processes -- Thermonuclear explosion in binaries: White dwarf helium star -- The phase diagram of high density binary mixtures and the luminosity function of single white dwarfs -- A variational approach to understanding white dwarf evolution -- The effect of varying helium and hydrogen layer masses on the pulsation properties of white dwarf models -- Discovery of the sixth dbv star: CBS 114 -- Optical frequencies in V471 Tau -- The time dependence of the phases of the harmonics relative to the 1490 sec fundamental in PG1346+082 -- A new hydrogen equation of state for low mass stars -- Magnetic fields in white dwarfs -- The magnetic white dwarfs in AM Her variables -- Evidence of complex field structure in the magnetic white dwarf in EXO 033319-2554.2 -- Phase correlated spectra of magnetic white dwarfs -- Synthetic spectra of magnetic white dwarfs -- Masses and magnetic fields of white dwarfs in cataclysmic variables -- G117-1115A: how is it evolving? -- Pressure shifts of metal lines in cool white dwarfs -- A new temperature determination for sirius B from IUE: Implications for the observed soft X-ray fluxes -- The detection of ionized helium and carbon in the pulsating DB degenerate GD358 -- Time-dependent studies of the settling of heavy elements in the envelopes of cool white dwarfs -- The atmospheric composition of the hot pre-degenerate star H1504+65 revisited -- Stratified model atmospheres for not DA white dwarfs -- An explanation for the euv spectrum of feige 24 -- Gravitational redshifts for hyades white dwarfs -- The high resolution spectrum of the pulsating, pre-white dwarf star PG 1159-035 (GW VIR) -- Polarized radiation from inhomogeneous accretion columns in am herculis binaries -- Thomson scattering in magnetic fields -- H-alpha emission in hot degenerates and OB subdwarfs -- Gravitational redshifts and the mass-radius relation -- The search for close binary evolved stars -- The nearby binary, Stein 2051 (G175-34AB) -- White dwarfs in globular clusters -- Toward a determination of the helium abundance in cool DA white dwarfs -- Constraints on the atmospheric parameters of the binary DA white dwarf L870-2 (EG11) -- The white dwarf mass and orbital period distribution in zero-age cataclysmic binaries -- The optical spectra of V803 Cen -- The period problem of the interacting binary white dwarf system AM CVn -- Critical mass for merging in double white dwarfs -- On the separations of common proper motion binaries containing white dwarfs -- Time resolved spectroscopy of AM CVn -- High frequency oscillations in SS CYGNI -- The mass spectrum of the white dwarfs in cataclysmic binaries -- Evolution of low-mass helium dwarfs in interacting binaries: Application to 4UI820-30 -- Binary, pulsating, and irregular variables among planetary nuclei -- On the formation of close binary white dwarfs -- A limit on the space density of short-period binary white dwarfs -- On the masses of the white dwarfs in classical nova systems -- Growth rate of white dwarf mass in binaries -- Dynamic mass exchange in doubly degenerate binaries. II. The importance of nuclear energy release -- The coalescence of white dwarfs and type I supernovae -- White dwarf — accretion disk boundary layers -- High resolution optical spectra of 120 white dwarfs. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996466832403316 |
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1989 | ||
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William and Caroline Herschel [[electronic resource] ] : Pioneers in Late 18th-Century Astronomy / / by Michael Hoskin |
Autore | Hoskin Michael |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (114 p.) |
Disciplina | 520.922 |
Collana | SpringerBriefs in Astronomy |
Soggetto topico |
Observations, Astronomical
Astronomy - Observations History Astronomy Cosmology Astronomy, Observations and Techniques History of Science Popular Science in Astronomy |
ISBN | 94-007-6875-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Vocations in Conflict -- 2. The Construction of the Heavens -- 3. "One of the Greatest Mechanics of His Day" -- 4. The Peerless Assistant -- 5. William's Declining Years -- 6. John's “Sacred Duty”. . |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300393303321 |
Hoskin Michael | ||
Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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