| Description |
1 online resource (ii, 302 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
02 Cover Page.pdf; Foreword; Preface; Review of Theoretical Concepts; Introduction; Frequencies; Petersen diagram; Rotation; Mode excitation; Convection; Magnetic fields; Nonlinear effects; Mode identification; Photometric methods; Spectroscopic methods; Discussion; Pulsating stars in the hot upper main sequence; Introduction; Pulsation in hot stars; O stars; The Cep stars; SPB stars; Cep and SPB stars in the Magellanic Clouds; The Be stars; Maia variables; Hot supergiants; Wolf-Rayet stars; Discussion; Scuti, Doradus and related stars; Introduction; Pulsational driving |
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Frequency patternsIndividual stars; XX Pyx; 44 Tau; 2 Tau; Aql; FG Vir -- benchmark for asteroseismology; Space observations; High-amplitude Scuti stars; Boo stars; Am and Ap stars; Hybrid stars; Doradus stars; SX Phe stars; PMS stars; Brown dwarfs; Discussion; roAp stars; Introduction; The roAp stars; The pulsations; Mode excitation; Stratification; Line profiles; Magneto-hydrodynamics; Individual stars; HD 24712 (HR 1217); HD 83368 (HR 3831); HD 99563; HD 101065; HD 128898 ( Cir); HD 176232 (10 Aql); HD 201601 ( Equ); Other interesting stars; Discussion; Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars |
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IntroductionPulsation in classical Cepheids; Overtone Cepheids; Double-mode Cepheids; Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds; Nonradial pulsations in Cepheids; Cepheid masses and mass loss; Baade-Wesselink radii; The PL law; Peculiar Cepheids; Population II Cepheids; Anomalous Cepheids; R CrB stars; RR Lyrae stars; Luminosities of RR Lyraes; RR Lyrae stars in the LMC; The Blazhko effect; Discussion; Solar-like oscillations in stars; Introduction; Driving of the oscillations; Amplitudes and mode lifetimes; Estimation of stellar parameters; Boo; Procyon; The Cen system; Red giants |
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Other observationsSpace observations; Discussion; Pulsation in cool long-period variables; Introduction; Miras and SRs; OGLE Small amplitude red variables; Sequence E; Long secondary periods; Modelling of the pulsations; Red supergiants; Discussion; Pulsations in white dwarfs and hot sub-dwarfs; Introduction; ZZ Ceti stars; Pulsational driving in ZZ Ceti and V777 Her stars; The DB gap; Predicted new instability strips; V777 Her stars; A classic example of asteroseismology: V777 Her and other stars; Hot DQ stars; GW Vir stars; Asteroseismology of GW Vir stars; Subdwarf B stars |
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Asteroseismology of V361 Hya starssdO pulsators; He-rich subdwarfs; Extreme He B stars; Discussion; Common abbreviations; References; Indices; Object Index; General Index; 04 Content; Foreword; Preface; Review of Theoretical Concepts; Introduction; Frequencies; Petersen diagram; Rotation; Mode excitation; Convection; Magnetic fields; Nonlinear effects; Mode identification; Photometric methods; Spectroscopic methods; Discussion; Pulsating stars in the hot upper main sequence; Introduction; Pulsation in hot stars; O stars; The Cep stars; SPB stars; Cep and SPB stars in the Magellanic Clouds |
| Summary |
Ever since some stars were found to pulsate in the early 20th century, stellar pulsation has been a major topic in astronomy and astrophysics. The huge amount of data recently available from observational surveys, new discoveries from space missions and studies of pulsating stars in low-metallicity environments have opened new perspectives and challenges. Nevertheless, progress in finding the holy grail of stellar pulsation - the use of pulsation to study stellar interiors (asteroseismology) - has been slow. The realization that a problem exists with the current stellar opacities is a major setback. CURRENT CHALLENGES IN STELLAR PULSATION describes the search for solutions to these problems over the last few years. It summarizes recent research in all fields of stellar pulsation, providing valuable guidelines to both students and researchers in the field |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Stellar oscillations.
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Pulsating stars.
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SCIENCE -- Astronomy.
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Pulsating stars
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Stellar oscillations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781608051854 |
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1608051854 |
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