Dit boekje bevat de teksten van zes lezingen in verband met supernovae, gehouden op een studiedag aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel op 26 april 1980. De lezingen behandelen waarnemingen van supernovae, de evolutie van een ster tot supernova, de…
This textbook introduction to the basic elements of fundamental astronomy and astrophysics serves as a foundation for understanding the structure, evolution, and observed properties of stars. The first half of the book explains how stellar motions,…
Volume 2 contains the basic physical ideas and laws used in the study of the outer layers of a star including stellar magnitudes, spectra and temperatures, radiative transfer in a stellar atmosphere, line formation, the spectrum of hydrogen, spectral…
This book is the final one in a series of three texts which together provide a modern, complete and authoritative account of our present knowledge of the stars. It discusses the internal structure and the evolution of stars, and is completely…
This volume contains all ESO Press Releases which were issued between December 1985 and the end of 1990, arranged in ten chapters according to the subject. Because of the selective nature of communications to the Press - not all news is "newsworthy"…
This is a modern treatment of the physics of the stars. The book starts with a chapter on stellar fundamentals, and then the story of the lives and deaths of the stars begins. The authors take us on a journey from the sun, a comparatively young star,…
Presented in two volumes, The Physics of Astrophysics is ideally suited for a year-long astrophysics course for university seniors and first-year graduate students. The first volume deals with the emission, absorption, and scattering of radiation by…