The Bottom of the Main Sequence - And Beyond - Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 10-12 August 1994 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)

The proceedings of this workshop should probably be prefaced with a few words on some of the more confusing jargon. The phrases "Very Low-Mass star" , "VLM star", or simply "VLM" are now used fairly uniformly by as tronomers studying the stars at the bottom of the hydrogen-burning stellar main sequence - unfortunately, however, there is no clear definition as to what constitutes a VLM star. The reader should be warned that VLM stars are variously considered to be stars with; masses less than 0.3M ; masses 0 less than 0.1M ; spectra later than about M6-7; luminosities fainter than 0 Mv = 15; or luminosities fainter than Mbol = 12. The important features of a VLM star, however, would seem to be (1) that it is about as faint as a star can be, and (2) that it still remains a star (ie. it still burns hydrogen) . All of the above criteria, therefore, would seem to qualify an object as a VLM star, and requiring a more stringent definition is probably quibbling.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	ESO Astrophysics Symposia
Release date:	August 2014
First published:	1995
Editors:	Christopher G. Tinney
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	309
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
ISBN-13:	978-3-662-22482-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Astrophysics Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Geophysics Promotions
LSN:	3-662-22482-8
Barcode:	9783662224823

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