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Stellar Structure and Evolution

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Coordinates, Mass Distribution, and Gravitational Field in Spherical Stars
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    Chapter 2 Conservation of Momentum
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    Chapter 3 The Virial Theorem
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    Chapter 4 Conservation of Energy
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    Chapter 5 Transport of Energy by Radiation and Conduction
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    Chapter 6 Stability Against Local, Non-spherical Perturbations
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    Chapter 7 Transport of Energy by Convection
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    Chapter 8 The Chemical Composition
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    Chapter 9 The Differential Equations of Stellar Evolution
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    Chapter 10 Boundary Conditions
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    Chapter 11 Numerical Procedure
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    Chapter 12 Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions
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    Chapter 13 The Ideal Gas with Radiation
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    Chapter 14 Ionization
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    Chapter 15 The Degenerate Electron Gas
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    Chapter 16 The Equation of State of Stellar Matter
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    Chapter 17 Opacity
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    Chapter 18 Nuclear Energy Production
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    Chapter 19 Polytropic Gaseous Spheres
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    Chapter 20 Homology Relations
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    Chapter 21 Simple Models in the U-V Plane
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    Chapter 22 The Main Sequence
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    Chapter 23 Other Main Sequences
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    Chapter 24 The Hayashi Line
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    Chapter 25 Stability Considerations
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    Chapter 26 The Onset of Star Formation
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    Chapter 27 The Formation of Protostars
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    Chapter 28 Pre-Main-Sequence Contraction
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    Chapter 29 From the Initial to the Present Sun
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    Chapter 30 Chemical Evolution on the Main Sequence
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    Chapter 31 Evolution Through Helium Burning — Massive Stars
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    Chapter 32 Evolution Through Helium Burning — Low-Mass Stars
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    Chapter 33 Later Phases
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    Chapter 34 Final Explosions and Collapse
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    Chapter 35 White Dwarfs
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    Chapter 36 Neutron Stars
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    Chapter 37 Black Holes
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    Chapter 38 Adiabatic Spherical Pulsations
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    Chapter 39 Non-adiabatic Spherical Pulsations
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    Chapter 40 Non-radial Stellar Oscillations
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    Chapter 41 The Mechanics of Rotating Stellar Models
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    Chapter 42 The Thermodynamics of Rotating Stellar Models
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    Chapter 43 The Angular-Velocity Distribution in Stars
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Chapter title
White Dwarfs
Chapter number 35
Book title
Stellar Structure and Evolution
Published by
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, January 1990
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-61523-8_35
Book ISBNs
978-3-54-058013-3, 978-3-64-261523-8
Authors

Rudolf Kippenhahn, Alfred Weigert, Kippenhahn, Rudolf, Weigert, Alfred