Very Low Mass Stars And Brown Dwarfs

Author : Rafael Rebolo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521663359
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Very Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs written by Rafael Rebolo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a state-of-the-art review of our current knowledge of brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars. The hunt for and study of these elusive objects is currently one of the most dynamic areas of research in astronomy for two reasons. Brown dwarfs bridge the gap between stars and planets, and they may constitute an important part of the 'dark matter' of the Universe. This volume presents review articles from a team of international authorities who gathered at a conference in La Palma to assess the spectacular progress that has been made in this field in the last few years.

Author : Neill I. Reid
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447136632
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Light on Dark Stars written by Neill I. Reid and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most common question that a child asks when he or she sees the night sky from a dark site for the first time is: 'How many stars are there?' This happens to be a question which has exercised the intellectual skills of many astronomers over the course of most of the last century, including, for the last two decades, one of the authors of this text. Until recently, the most accurate answer was 'We are not certain, but there is a good chance that almost all of them are M dwarfs. ' Within the last three years, results from new sky-surveys - particularly the first deep surveys at near infrared wavelengths - have provided a breakthrough in this subject, solidifying our census of the lowest-mass stars and identifying large numbers of the hitherto almost mythical substellar-mass brown dwarfs. These extremely low-luminosity objects are the central subjects of this book, and the subtitle should be interpreted accordingly. The expression 'low-mass stars' carries a wide range of meanings in the astronomical literature, but is most frequently taken to refer to objects with masses comparable with that of the Sun - F and G dwarfs, and their red giant descendants. While this definition is eminently reasonable for the average extragalactic astronomer, our discussion centres on M dwarfs, with masses of no more than 60% that of the Sun, and extends to 'failed stars' - objects with insufficient mass to ignite central hydrogen fusion.

Author : Ann Marie Cody
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1612334210
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Search for Pulsation in Young Brown Dwarfs and Very Low Mass Stars written by Ann Marie Cody and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, Palla & Baraffe proposed that brown dwarfs and very low mass stars (

Author : Neil Reid
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783540808404
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Light on Dark Stars written by Neil Reid and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been very considerable progress in research into low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets during the past few years, particularly since the fist edtion of this book was published in 2000. In this new edtion the authors present a comprehensive review of both the astrophysical nature of individual red dwarf and brown dwarf stars and their collective statistical properties as an important Galactic stellar population. Chapters dealing with the observational properies of low-mass dwarfs, the stellar mass function and extrasolar planets have been completely revised. Other chapters have been significantly revised and updated as appropriate, including important new material on observational techniques, stellar acivity, the Galactic halo and field star surveys. The authors detail the many discoveries of new brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets made since publication of the first edition of the book and provide a state-of-the-art review of our current knowledge of very low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets, including both the latest observational results and theoretical work.

Author : Nigel Charles Hambly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Galactic Clusters written by Nigel Charles Hambly and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : I. Neill Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781447136651
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Light on Dark Stars written by I. Neill Reid and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most common question that a child asks when he or she sees the night sky from a dark site for the first time is: 'How many stars are there?' This happens to be a question which has exercised the intellectual skills of many astronomers over the course of most of the last century, including, for the last two decades, one of the authors of this text. Until recently, the most accurate answer was 'We are not certain, but there is a good chance that almost all of them are M dwarfs. ' Within the last three years, results from new sky-surveys - particularly the first deep surveys at near infrared wavelengths - have provided a breakthrough in this subject, solidifying our census of the lowest-mass stars and identifying large numbers of the hitherto almost mythical substellar-mass brown dwarfs. These extremely low-luminosity objects are the central subjects of this book, and the subtitle should be interpreted accordingly. The expression 'low-mass stars' carries a wide range of meanings in the astronomical literature, but is most frequently taken to refer to objects with masses comparable with that of the Sun - F and G dwarfs, and their red giant descendants. While this definition is eminently reasonable for the average extragalactic astronomer, our discussion centres on M dwarfs, with masses of no more than 60% that of the Sun, and extends to 'failed stars' - objects with insufficient mass to ignite central hydrogen fusion.

Author : María Victoria Rodríguez-Ledesma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rotation Studies of Young Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs written by María Victoria Rodríguez-Ledesma and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine Louise Slesnick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1-10 Myr-old Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Nearby Star Forming Regions written by Catherine Louise Slesnick and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David J. Pinfield
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in Open Clusters written by David J. Pinfield and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A 0.6 to 4.1 [mu]m Spectroscopic Study of Very Low-mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electronic reproduction.