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Evolution of Massive Stars - A Confrontation between Theory and Observation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
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Evolution of Massive Stars - A Confrontation between Theory and Observation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994)
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Massive stars occupy an exceptional place in general astrophysics.
They trigger many if not all of the important processes in galactic
evolution whereas due to their intrinsic brightness, they offer the
(only until now) possibility to study the stellar content and
stellar behaviour in distant galaxies. The last, say, 25 years,
massive stars have been the subject of numerous meetings discussing
the influence of massive stars on population synthesis, the number
distribution of different types of massive stars, the LBV
phenomenon, WR stars, X-ray binaries, stellar winds in massive
stars, chemical pecularities in massive stars, supernova explosions
of massive stars and the important SN1987A event, the influence of
massive stars and chemical evolution of galaxies. It is clear that
without a theory of stellar evolution, the study of these topics
loses a lot of its significance. Massive star evolution therefore
got a chance in these meetings, but rarely as a prime subject. The
state of the art, the physical processes and the uncertainties in
stellar evolution were barely touched. Even more, the influence of
close binaries in all these massive star meetings slowly
disappeared the last, say, 13 years without any scientific
justification, although a significant fraction of stars occurs in
close binaries with periods small enough so that both components
will interact during their evolution. Denying the binaries or not
discussing their influence on results and conclusions, makes the
latter very uncertain or even completely unreliable.
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