Title :  The Art of Modelling Stars in the 21^st Century     

 

 

Author :Licai Deng , Kwing-Lam Chan

 

Published in Dec 2008  by   CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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ISBN : 978-0-521-88983-4 -  478 pages – hardback

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Stellar models are the very basic building blocks with which we build up our knowledge of the Universe. New numerical experiments are heralding a new level of sophistication in our ability to model, and understand, how stars work. This volume provides an overview and the most recent advances in modelling of stellar structure and evolution. Modelling of stars relies on our understanding of the detailed physical processes happening in stars, and the most recent observations of stars made by modern large telescopes and current high technologies. IAU Symposium 252 presents the most recent developments in five key areas, including: improvements of the physical ingredients of stellar models; the evolution of low and intermediate mass stars; the evolution of massive stars; close binary evolution; and stellar physics in the era of very large telescopes. This overview of stellar research is at a level suitable for research astronomers and graduate students.

• IAU S252 contains contributions from all of the many disciplines relevant to stellar evolution • Summarises the advances in our understanding of stellar evolution through modelling, due to new computing capabilities and better observations • Contains a full discussion of the key unresolved problems in the field