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Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe
Jorick S. Vink (Ed.)
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Description for Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe
Hardback. Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe Editor(s): Vink, Jorick S. Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Num Pages: 268 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, 43 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PGM; PHVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 588.
This book presents the status of research on very massive stars in the Universe. While it has been claimed that stars with over 100 solar masses existed in the very early Universe, recent studies have also discussed the existence and deaths of stars up to 300 solar masses in the local Universe. This represents a paradigm shift for the stellar upper-mass limit, which may have major implications far beyond the field of stellar physics.
The book comprises 7 chapters, which describe this discipline and provide sufficient background and introductory content for graduate (PhD) students and researchers from different branches of astronomy ... Read more
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Astrophysics and Space Science Library
Condition
New
Weight
587 g
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319095950
SKU
V9783319095950
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About Jorick S. Vink (Ed.)
Jorick Vink is a Senior Research Astronomer at Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland. His primary research interests include mass loss from massive stars as a function of metallicity, line polarimetry to probe circumstellar geometries in massive evolved as well as young stars (as to study star formation), and in Horizontal Branch morphologies. Dr. Vink organized the Joint Discussion "Very massive stars ... Read more
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