Evolution of Stars and Stellar PopulationsISBN: 978-0-470-09220-0
Paperback
400 pages
December 2005
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- Introduces the theory of stellar evolution alongside its applications to stellar populations.
- Comprehensive presentation of stellar evolution theory with full explanations of the photometric and chemical properties of stars
- Introduces the concept of stellar population from an observational perspective
- Presents a comprehensive analysis of the physics necessary to understand how stars work and how they evolve.
- Presents stellar evolution as a tool to investigate the evolution of galaxies and of the universe in general
- Supplementary website with stellar evolution tracks and programmes to compute synthetic CMD’s integrated magnitudes and colours