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Nuclear Astrophysics - Proceedings of a Workshop, Held at the Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, FRG, April 21-24, 1987 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
Wolfgang Hillebrandt, Rudolf Kuhfuss, Ewald Muller, James W. Truran
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The recent discovery of a type II supernova in the Large Magellanic
Cloud provides a rare chance to compare models of stellar evolution
and nucleosynthesis directly with observations. This workshop
covers thermonuclear reaction rates in chaos (experimental and
theoretical), stellar evolution, nucleosynthesis and isotopic
anomalies in meteorites and, in a final section, the supernovae, in
particular SN 1987A. It brings the most interesting news in the
rapidly developing field of nuclear astrophysics to researchers and
also to graduate students. Recent and future developments are
discussed. Special emphasis is placed on experimental and
theoretical approaches to obtaining nuclear reaction rates, models
of stellar evolution and explosions, and theories of
nucleosynthesis. Various aspects of stellar evolution,
nucleosynthesis, and thermonuclear reactions of astrophysical
interest are reviewed. Several contributions deal with supernova
explosions of massive stars, and in particular with Supernova 1987A
and its impact on current models of the evolution of massive stars,
the gravitational collapse of stellar cores, and neutrino physics
and astronomy.
Observations of distant supernovae have provided startling evidence
that the expansion of the Universe may be accelerating, rather than
decelerating. If this result is verified by future studies, it has
profound implications for cosmology. The reliability of this
finding and its implications for both the study of supernovae and
cosmology are the subject of this exciting volume. Based on a
conference at the University of Chicago, this timely volume,
originally published in 2000, presents articles by leading experts
on the theory of Type Ia supernovae, observational astronomy, and
cosmology. It examines the observational data, the nature of the
likely progenitor binary systems, the outburst mechanisms of Type
Ia supernovae events, and the cosmological implications. This is a
unique and wide-ranging review of one of the most dramatic and
controversial results in astronomy in recent decades. It makes
fascinating reading for all researchers and graduate students.
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