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- From: Frederick.A.Ringwald@dartmouth.edu (Frederick A. Ringwald)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Stellar Structure References
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.112135.18026@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 11:21:35 GMT
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- In article <4350007@hpcc01.corp.hp.com>
- flower@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Graham Flower) writes:
-
- > Can somebody recommend a popular or more demanding book that discusses
- > the (Bethe) sequence of nuclear reactions that explains the evolution
- > of Stars and the distribution of chemical abundances in the universe.
-
- Sure. In order of difficulty:
-
- The New Cosmos, by Alrecht Unsoeld (this has recently been revised with
- a co-author)
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- The Physical Universe, by Frank Shu (who has also come out with two
- advanced volumes, the Physics of Astrophysics, on Radiation and Gas
- Dynamics, both of which are skimpy on nuclear physics: he just
- references Clayton)
-
- Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics, vol. 3, by Erika Boehm-Vitnese (I
- especially liked vol. 2 of this series, as a good, basic, thorough
- introduction to stellar atmospheres)
-
- and, on an intermediate level,
-
- Bowers and Deeming, Astrophysics I: Stars (ch. 7) Good stuff!
-
- Also, you can't go too wrong with Clayton's book, but with the Feynman
- diagrams and the chapter on nucleosynthesis, it helps to have some
- cushions. Another book you should know about, if you like this stuff,
- is:
-
- Rolfs and Rodney, Cauldrons on the Cosmos,
-
- as far as I know the only intended text just on nuclear astrophysics,
- with a particularly interesting section on laboratory experiments.
-
- Fred Ringwald
- Department of Physics & Astronomy
- Dartmouth College
- Hanover, NH 03755-3528
-