Introduction to Astrophysics The Stars

by Dufay, Jean; Gingerich, Owen

• ISBN13: 9780486607719
• ISBN10: 0486607712
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-10-17
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

A concrete, mid-level treatment, this readable and authoritative translation from the French provides an excellent guide to observational astrophysics. Methods of research and observation receive as much attention as results. Topics include stellar photometry and spectroscopy, classification and properties of normal stars, construction of Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams, Yerkes two-dimensional classification, much more. 1961 edition.

Author Biography

French astronomer Jean Dufay (1896–1967) computed the altitude of the earth's ozone layer and was named Honorary Director of the Lyon and Haute-Provence observatories.

Translator Owen Gingerich is a former Research Professor of Astronomy and the History of Science at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

I. Definitions and Specisal Conditions in Astronomical Photometry

II. Stellar Photometry and Colorimetry

III. Astronomical Spectrographs

IV. Description and Initial Classification of Stellar Spectra

V. Spectra and Absolute Magnitudes

VI. Continuous Spectra of the Stars, Gradients and Color Temperatures

VII. Spectrophometric Classification of Stars

VIII. Diameters and Effective Temperatures of the Stars

IX. Masses and Densities of the Stars

X. Elementary Ideas on the Constitution of Stellar Atmospheres

Physical and Astronomical Constants

Abbreviations of the Names of Constellations Cited

Brief Bibliography

Index