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5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent book on stellar astrophysics,
By physics student "visviva" (St. John's, Newfoundland Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stellar Interiors - Physical Principles, Structure, and Evolution (Hardcover)
This is an excellent book on stellar astrophysics. It is comprehensive and detailed. The authorsknow their material very well, and are able to present, discuss, and explain it concisely. I knew a fair amount about stellar astrophysics before reading this book, but I certainly know more now. The book has a little of the flavour of Chandrasekhar's work on stellar structure, to its benefit (Chandrasekhar's book itself is grievously obsolete). Some of this influence is shown in the section on Stellar Modelling, with its lengthy discussion of polytropes, and the Eddington standard model. That section on stellar modelling is an excellent feature, as it is not something which necessarily finds its way into books on stellar structure. One matter, however. The advertised CD-ROM is not included. My copy was printed late in 2010. The material can be found at [...]. Neither the ISBN-10 (from the book) nor the ISBN-13 (available here at Amazon) worked, but browsing by year I found it. Shockingly, the ATMOS section and the EVOLUTION section have only Windows executables, though there is a link in one section to what is described as modern Unix code. Really, functional Fortran code is the icing on the cake, the cake being a very fine book on stellar astrophysics. |
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Stellar Interiors: Physical Principles, Structure, and Evolution (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library) by Carl J. Hansen (Hardcover - January 1, 1995)
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