Stellar Surface Structure (Paperback, 1996 ed.)

In the past decade, indirect (Doppler) imaging techniques have opened up a whole new discipline in stellar astronomy, providing increasingly detailed photometric, magnetic, and chemical inhomogeneity images of stellar surfaces. Furthermore, new optical interferometers are already being used with sophisticated interferometer techniques to image stellar surface structures more directly, and in the future the ESO VLT Interferometer and other instruments will extend these capabilities enormously. These developments are highlighted in the first two sections of this book. The large number of recent results, ground-based and space-based, and the lack of a generally accepted dynamo theory with predictive power for the stars and the Sun, result in an ever-growing complexity of interpretation of individual results. The IAU Symposium 176 on Stellar Surface Structure' consequently focused on spatially resolved stellar observations throughout the H-R diagram, from O- and B-stars to late M-stars. Two further sections in this book summarize the current observational data on surface inhomogeneities in stellar photospheres, chromospheres, and coronae. Finally, a special section is devoted to next generation model atmospheres.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	International Astronomical Union Symposia, 176
Release date:	May 1996
First published:	1996
Editors:	Klaus G. Strassmeier • Jeffrey L. Linsky
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	598
Edition:	1996 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-4027-0
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Galaxies, clusters, intergalactic matter > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Solar system > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Astrophysics
LSN:	0-7923-4027-2
Barcode:	9780792340270

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