Icko IbenCambridge University Press, 11/29/2012EAN 9781107016576, ISBN10: 1107016576Hardcover, 616 pages, 24.6 x 18.9 x 3 cmLanguage: EnglishThis volume explains the microscopic physics operating in stars in advanced stages of their evolution and describes with many numerical examples and illustrations how they respond to this microphysics. Models of low and intermediate mass are evolved through the core helium-burning phase, the asymptotic giant branch phase (alternating shell hydrogen and helium burning) and through the final cooling white dwarf phase. A massive model is carried from the core helium-burning phase through core and shell carbon-burning phases. Gravothermal responses to nuclear reaction-induced transformations and energy loss from the surface are described in detail. Written for senior graduate students and researchers who have mastered the principles of stellar evolution, as developed in the first volume of Stellar Evolution Physics, sufficient attention is paid to how numerical solutions are obtained to enable the reader to engage in model construction on a professional level.Volume 2Part IV. Transport Processes, Weak Interaction Processes and Helium-Burning Reactions12. Diffusion and gravitational settling13. Heat conduction by electrons14. Beta decay and electron capture at high densities in stars15. The current-current weak interaction and the production of neutrino-antineutrino pairs16. Helium-burning nuclear reactions and energy-generation ratesPart V. Evolution during Helium-Burning Phases17. Evolution of a low mass model burning helium and hydrogen18. Evolution of an intermediate mass model burning helium and hydrogen19. Neutron production and neutron capture in a thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch star of intermediate mass20. Evolution of a massive population I model during helium- and carbon-burning stagesPart VI. Terminal Evolution of Low and Intermediate Mass Stars21. Wind mass loss on the AGB and formation of a circumstellar envelope, evolution of the remnant as the central star of a planetary nebula, and white dwarf evolutionIndex.
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