Evolutionary Processes in Binary and Multiple Stars: 40 (Cambridge Astrophysics, Series Number 40) - Softcover

Eggleton, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107403421 ISBN 13: 9781107403420

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

This 2006 volume discusses the statistics of binary stars; the evolution of single stars; and interaction between multiple stars.

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Review

Review of the hardback: '... I know of no book quite like Peter Eggleton's monograph, which describes in great detail stellar evolution in the context of binary and to some extent multiple stars, but also gives a masterly and comprehensive one-chapter summary of single-star evolution, in a very concise style. Anyone who masters the contents will have a deep understanding of the processes involved and of the approximations that are necessary to make progress. ... the writing is clear and readable ... the text is full of nice phrases that are accessible to everyone ... A nice feature of the book, that will make it more accessible to non-experts, is that the detailed mathematical justifications have mostly been placed in the appendices that take up the last 50 pages of the book ... a remarkable book ... it is authoritative and comprehensive and will be a fruitful source of ideas for those working in the field. It should also persuade our extragalactic colleagues that stellar evolution is still a topic with lots of interesting unsolved problems.' The Observatory

Book Description

This 2006 volume discusses the statistics of binary stars; the evolution of single stars; and several of the most important kinds of interaction between two (and even three or more) stars. A series of mathematical appendices gives a concise but full account of the mathematics of these processes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107403421
• ISBN 13: 9781107403420
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332