Challenges in stellar pulsation /
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| Author / Creator: | Balona, Luis A. |
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| Imprint: | [Sharjah, U.A.E.] : Bentham Science Publishers, 2010. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (ii, 302 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11234153 |
Table of Contents:
- 02 Cover Page.pdf; Foreword; Preface; Review of Theoretical Concepts; Introduction; Frequencies; Petersen diagram; Rotation; Mode excitation; Convection; Magnetic fields; Nonlinear effects; Mode identification; Photometric methods; Spectroscopic methods; Discussion; Pulsating stars in the hot upper main sequence; Introduction; Pulsation in hot stars; O stars; The Cep stars; SPB stars; Cep and SPB stars in the Magellanic Clouds; The Be stars; Maia variables; Hot supergiants; Wolf-Rayet stars; Discussion; Scuti, Doradus and related stars; Introduction; Pulsational driving.
- Frequency patternsIndividual stars; XX Pyx; 44 Tau; 2 Tau; Aql; FG Vir
- benchmark for asteroseismology; Space observations; High-amplitude Scuti stars; Boo stars; Am and Ap stars; Hybrid stars; Doradus stars; SX Phe stars; PMS stars; Brown dwarfs; Discussion; roAp stars; Introduction; The roAp stars; The pulsations; Mode excitation; Stratification; Line profiles; Magneto-hydrodynamics; Individual stars; HD 24712 (HR 1217); HD 83368 (HR 3831); HD 99563; HD 101065; HD 128898 ( Cir); HD 176232 (10 Aql); HD 201601 ( Equ); Other interesting stars; Discussion; Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars.
- IntroductionPulsation in classical Cepheids; Overtone Cepheids; Double-mode Cepheids; Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds; Nonradial pulsations in Cepheids; Cepheid masses and mass loss; Baade-Wesselink radii; The PL law; Peculiar Cepheids; Population II Cepheids; Anomalous Cepheids; R CrB stars; RR Lyrae stars; Luminosities of RR Lyraes; RR Lyrae stars in the LMC; The Blazhko effect; Discussion; Solar-like oscillations in stars; Introduction; Driving of the oscillations; Amplitudes and mode lifetimes; Estimation of stellar parameters; Boo; Procyon; The Cen system; Red giants.
- Other observationsSpace observations; Discussion; Pulsation in cool long-period variables; Introduction; Miras and SRs; OGLE Small amplitude red variables; Sequence E; Long secondary periods; Modelling of the pulsations; Red supergiants; Discussion; Pulsations in white dwarfs and hot sub-dwarfs; Introduction; ZZ Ceti stars; Pulsational driving in ZZ Ceti and V777 Her stars; The DB gap; Predicted new instability strips; V777 Her stars; A classic example of asteroseismology: V777 Her and other stars; Hot DQ stars; GW Vir stars; Asteroseismology of GW Vir stars; Subdwarf B stars.
- Asteroseismology of V361 Hya starssdO pulsators; He-rich subdwarfs; Extreme He B stars; Discussion; Common abbreviations; References; Indices; Object Index; General Index; 04 Content; Foreword; Preface; Review of Theoretical Concepts; Introduction; Frequencies; Petersen diagram; Rotation; Mode excitation; Convection; Magnetic fields; Nonlinear effects; Mode identification; Photometric methods; Spectroscopic methods; Discussion; Pulsating stars in the hot upper main sequence; Introduction; Pulsation in hot stars; O stars; The Cep stars; SPB stars; Cep and SPB stars in the Magellanic Clouds.