Neil Reid & Suzanne Hawley 
New Light on Dark Stars [PDF ebook] 
Red Dwarfs, Low-Mass Stars, Brown Stars

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There has been very considerable progress in research into low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets during the past few years, particularly since the fist edtion of this book was published in 2000. In this new edtion the authors present a comprehensive review of both the astrophysical nature of individual red dwarf and brown dwarf stars and their collective statistical properties as an important Galactic stellar population. Chapters dealing with the observational properies of low-mass dwarfs, the stellar mass function and extrasolar planets have been completely revised. Other chapters have been significantly revised and updated as appropriate, including important new material on observational techniques, stellar acivity, the Galactic halo and field star surveys. The authors detail the many discoveries of new brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets made since publication of the first edition of the book and provide a state-of-the-art review of our current knowledge of very low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets, including both the latest observational results and theoretical work.

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Table of Content

Astronomical concepts.- Observational properties of low-mass dwarfs.- The structure, formation and evolution of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs.- The photosphere.- Stellar activity.- Brown dwarfs.- A Galactic structure primer.- The stellar luminosity function.- The mass function.- M dwarfs in the Galactic Halo.- Extrasolar planets.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 560 ● ISBN 9783540276104 ● File size 10.1 MB ● Publisher Springer Berlin ● City Heidelberg ● Country DE ● Published 2006 ● Edition 2 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2160904 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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