Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Historical overview
- 2 Observations of stellar winds
- 3 Basic concepts: isothermal winds
- 4 Basic concepts: non-isothermal winds
- 5 Coronal winds
- 6 Sound wave driven winds
- 7 Dust driven winds
- 8 Line driven winds
- 9 Magnetic rotator theory
- 10 Alfvén wave driven winds
- 11 Outflowing disks from rotating stars
- 12 Winds colliding with the interstellar medium
- 13 The effects of mass loss on stellar evolution
- 14 Problems
- APPENDIX 1 The chronology of stellar wind studies
- APPENDIX 2 Elements of thermodynamics
- APPENDIX 3 De l'Hopital's rule for equations with a singular point
- APPENDIX 4 Physical and astronomical constants
- Bibliography
- Object index
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Historical overview
- 2 Observations of stellar winds
- 3 Basic concepts: isothermal winds
- 4 Basic concepts: non-isothermal winds
- 5 Coronal winds
- 6 Sound wave driven winds
- 7 Dust driven winds
- 8 Line driven winds
- 9 Magnetic rotator theory
- 10 Alfvén wave driven winds
- 11 Outflowing disks from rotating stars
- 12 Winds colliding with the interstellar medium
- 13 The effects of mass loss on stellar evolution
- 14 Problems
- APPENDIX 1 The chronology of stellar wind studies
- APPENDIX 2 Elements of thermodynamics
- APPENDIX 3 De l'Hopital's rule for equations with a singular point
- APPENDIX 4 Physical and astronomical constants
- Bibliography
- Object index
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Introduction to Stellar Winds , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999