Pulsating Stars

This most up–to–date and comprehensive book on the topic links the latest observational results to our present understanding of stellar pulsation and evolution theory.

Spis treści:
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1. Historical Overview
2. Fundamentals of Stellar Variability Observations
3. Classification of Variable Stars
4. Stellar structure and evolution theory
5. Stellar pulsation theory
6. Cepheid variable stars
7. RR Lyrae Stars
8. Delta Scuti and SX Phoenicis stars
9. White Dwarf stars
10. RV Tauri stars
11. Red variable stars
12. Beta Cephei stars and other upper main sequence variables
13. Pulsating supergiant stars
14. Subdwarf B pulsators

Nota biograficzna:
Horace Smith is professor at the Michigan State University. Having received his Master′s degree and PhD from Yale, his research is focused upon variable stars and what we can learn about them as well as their stellar neighbourhood. Numerous positions on scientific committees as in reviewer boards of journals. A large publication list including a book on Lyrae stars give proof of his capabilities to write such a book.
Marcio Catelan holds a professorship at the Catholic University of Chile. Previous assignments were with the university of Virginia and with NASA GSFC. He also can present an impressive record of institutional service records and awards.