This book will present the first comprehensive discussion of both the astrophysical structure of individual M-dwarf and brown dwarf star, and their collective statistical properties as a Galactic stellar population. The first section of the book will discuss M-dwarfs and brown dwarfs as individual objects - their observational properties, formation, internal structure and atmospheres. The second section will deal with M-dwarfs from the Galactic perspective - the number of stars, their possible contribution to dark matter and the missing mass and their use as probes of the stellar populations that make up our Galaxy.
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M dwarf stars rank among the least spectacular constituents of the local stellar population, yet they represent almost half of the total mass locked up in stars within the Milky Way galaxy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hydride hands, brown dwarf surveys, photometric parallax surveys, substellar mass function, luminosity function data, halo luminosity function, subdwarf sequence, disk dwarfs, inactive stars, broadband colours, halo subdwarfs, mass luminosity relationship, holometric luminosity, stellar luminosity function, halo kinematics, field subdwarfs, mass function derived, multiplicity fraction, photometric parallaxes, brown dwarf candidates, colour magnitude diagram, mass radius relationship, cool brown dwarfs, luminosity function derived, lithium absorption Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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M dwarf stars rank among the least spectacular constituents of the local stellar population, yet they represent almost half of the total mass locked up in stars within the Milky Way galaxy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hydride hands, brown dwarf surveys, photometric parallax surveys, substellar mass function, luminosity function data, halo luminosity function, subdwarf sequence, disk dwarfs, inactive stars, broadband colours, halo subdwarfs, mass luminosity relationship, holometric luminosity, stellar luminosity function, halo kinematics, field subdwarfs, mass function derived, multiplicity fraction, photometric parallaxes, brown dwarf candidates, colour magnitude diagram, mass radius relationship, cool brown dwarfs, luminosity function derived, lithium absorption Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, Milky Way, Mount Wilson, New York, Wavelength Figure, Davis Philip, Gyrs Figure, Lane Emden, University of Arizona Press, Hubble Space Telescope, Mauna Kea, Oschin Schmidt, Miller Scalo, Proxima Centauri, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Fermi Dirac, Lord Kelvin, Naval Observatory, Rayleigh Jeans, San Francisco, Solar Radius, University of Chicago Press New!
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- The Nearby Stars and the Stellar Luminosity Function by Arthur R. Upgren on page 126
- Energetic Phenomena on the Sun (Astrophysics and Space Science Library) by M. R. Kundu on page 126
- Radio Stars (Astrophysics and Space Science Library) by R. Hjellming on page 80
- Theory of the Earth, V1 by James Hutton on page 124
- The Internal Constitution of the Stars (Cambridge Science Classics) by Arthur S. Eddington on page 124
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- Frontiers of X-Ray Astronomy (Cambridge Planetary Science) by A. C. Fabian on page 69
- The Origins of Stars and Planets: The VLT View by Joao F. Alves on page 224
- New Light on Dark Stars: Red Dwarfs, Low-Mass Stars, Brown Stars (Springer Praxis Books / Astronomy and Planetary Sciences) by Neil Reid in Front Matter
- The New Cosmos: An Introduction to Astronomy and Astrophysics by Albrecht Unsöld in Back Matter
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