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| Preliminaries | |
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| Hydrostatic Equilibrium | |
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| An Energy Principle | |
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| The Virial Theorem and Its Applications | |
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| Application: Global Energetics | |
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| Application: The Kelvin-Helmholtz Time Scale | |
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| Application: A Dynamic Time Scale | |
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| Application: Estimates of Stellar Temperatures | |
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| Application: Another Dynamic Time Scale | |
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| The Constant-Density Model | |
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| Calculation of Molecular Weights | |
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| The Temperature Distribution | |
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| Energy Generation and Transport | |
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| Stellar Dimensional Analysis | |
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| Evolutionary Lifetimes on the Main Sequence | |
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| The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram | |
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| Summary Remarks | |
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| Exercises | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| An Overview of Stellar Evolution | |
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| Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) | |
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| The Zero-Age Main Sequence (ZAMS) | |
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| Life on the Main Sequence | |
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| Brown Dwarfs | |
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| Leaving the Main Sequence | |
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| Cluster HR Diagrams | |
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| Cluster and Galactics Ages | |
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| Mass Loss From Massive Stars | |
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| Red Giants and Supergiants | |
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| Helium Flash or Fizzle | |
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| Helium Core Burning | |
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| Helium Core Exhaustion | |
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| Asymptotic Giant Branch | |
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| Later Phases, Initial Masses <$>{\cal M} \leq 6-10 {\cal M}_\odot<$> | |
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| A Bit About White Dwarfs | |
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| Advanced Phases, Initial Masses <$>{\cal M} \ge 6-10 {\cal M}_\odot<$> | |
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| Core Collapse and Nucleosynthesis | |
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| Abundances and Nucleosynthesis | |
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| Variable Stars: A Brief Overview | |
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| Eclipsing and Ellipsoidal Variables | |
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| Spotted, Rotating Stars | |
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| T Tauri Stars, FU Orionis Stars (FUORs), and Luminous Blue Variables | |
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| Last Helium Flash and Formation of Atmospheric Dust | |
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| Pulsational Variables | |
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| Explosive Variables | |
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| Novae | |
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| Supernovae | |
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| SN1987A | |
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| SN Type I | |
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| SN Remnants | |
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| White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars, and Black Holes | |
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| Binary Stars | |
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| Types of Binaries | |
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| The Roche Geometry | |
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| Formation and Early Evolution | |
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| The First Mass Transfer Phase and its Consequences | |
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| Systems With One Compact Component | |
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| The Second Phase of Mass Transfer | |
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| Binaries With Two Compact Components | |
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| Star Formation | |
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| Supplemental Material | |
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| Exercises | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Equations of State | |
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| Distribution Functions | |
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| Blackbody Radiation | |
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| Ideal Monatomic Gas | |
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| The Saha Equation | |
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| Fermi-Dirac Equations of State | |
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| The Completely Degenerate Gas | |
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| Application to White Dwarfs | |
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| Effects of Temperature on Degeneracy | |
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| ""Almost Perfect"" Equations of State | |
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| Adiabatic Exponents and Other Derivatives | |
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| Keeping the Composition Fixed | |
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| Specific Heats | |
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| Adiabatic Exponents | |
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| Mixtures of Ideal Gases and Radiation | |
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| Mixtures of Degenerate and Ideal Gases | |
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| Allowing for Chemical Reactions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Radiative and Conductive Heat Transfer | |
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| Radiative Transfer | |
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| The Diffusion Equation | |
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| A Brief Diversion into ""∇s"" | |
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| A Simple Atmosphere | |
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| Radiative Opacity Sources | |
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| Electron Scattering | |
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| Free-Free Absorption | |
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| Bound-Free and Bound-Bound Absorption | |
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| H Opacity and Others | |
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| Heat Transfer by Conduction | |
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| Tabulated Opacities | |
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| Some Observed Spectra | |
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| Line Profiles and the Curve of Growth | |
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| The Lorentz Profile | |
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| Doppler Broadening | |
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| Curve of Growth | |
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| Exercises | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Heat Transfer by Convection | |
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| The Mixing Length Theory | |
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| Criteria for Convection | |
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| Radiative Leakage | |
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| The Equation of Motion | |
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| Convective Efficiencies and Time Scales | |
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| Convective Fluxes | |
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| Calculations in the MLT | |
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| Numeric Examples | |
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| Variations on the MLT | |
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| Beyond the MLT | |
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| Semiconvection | |
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| Hydrodynamic Calculations | |
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| Exercises | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Stellar Energy Sources | |
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| Gravitational Energy Sources | |
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| Thermonuclear Energy Sources | |
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| Preliminaries | |
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| Nuclear Energetics | |
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| Astrophysical Thermonuclear Cross Sections and Reaction Rates | |
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| Nonresonant Reaction Rates | |
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| Example: The <sup>12</sup>C(p, �)<sup>13</sup>N Reaction | |
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| Resonant Reaction Rates | |
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| Other Forms of Reaction Rates | |
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| Neutron Capture and the S-Process | |
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| Weak Interactions | |
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| The Proton-Proton Reaction | |
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| Special Effects | |
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| The Proton-Proton Chains | |
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| Deuterium and Lithium Burning | |
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| The Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen Cycles | |
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| Helium-Burning Reactions | |
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| Carbon, Neon, and Oxygen Burning | |
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| Silicon ""Burning"" | |
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| Neutrino Emission Mechanisms | |
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| Pair Annihilation Neutrinos | |
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| Photoneutrinos and Bremsstrahlung Neutrinos | |
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| Plasma Neutrinos | |
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| Exercises | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Stellar Modeling | |
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| The Equations of Stellar Structure | |
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| Polytropic Equations of State and Polytropes | |
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| General Properties of Polytropes | |
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| Numerical Calculation of the Lane-Emden Functions | |
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| Shooting for a Solution | |
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| The Fitting Method | |
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| The U-V Plane | |
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| Newton-Raphson or ""Henyey"" Methods | |
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| Eigenvalue Problems and the Henyey Method | |
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| Dynamic Problems | |
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| The Eddington Standard Model | |
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| Applications to Zero-Temperature White Dwarfs | |
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| The Approach to Real Models | |
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| Central Expansions | |
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| The Radiative Stellar Envelope | |
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| The Structure of the Envelope | |
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| The Radiative Temperature Structure | |
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| Completely Convective Stars | |
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| A Question of Entropy | |
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| Application to Pre-Main Sequence Evolution | |
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| Exercises | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Asteroseismology | |
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| Adiabatic Radial Pulsations | |
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| The Linear Adiabatic Wave Equation | |
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| Some Examples | |
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| Asymptotic Analysis | |
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| Nonadiabatic Radial Motions | |
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| The Quasi-Adiabatic Approximation | |
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| The �- and �-Mechanisms | |
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| The Epstein Weight Function and Cepheids | |
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| Nonadiabaticity and the Cepheid Strip | |
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| A Footnote on Nonlinear Modeling | |
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| An Introduction to Nonradial Oscillations | |
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| Linearization of the Hydrodynamic Equations | |
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| Separation of the Pulsation Equations | |
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| Properties of the Solutions | |
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| Mode Classification | |
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| The Eigenfunctions | |
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| The Inverse Problem and Rotation | |
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| Probing for Internal Rotation | |
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| Solid Stars?! | |
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| Exercises | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Structure and Evolution of the Sun | |
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| Vital Statistics of the Sun | |
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| From the ZAMS to the Present | |
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| The Sun on the ZAMS | |
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| Evolution From the ZAMS | |
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| The Present-Day Sun | |
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| The Solar Neutrino ""Problem"" | |
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| The Role of Rotation in Evolution | |
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| von Zeipel's Paradox | |
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| Rotational Mixing of Stellar Interiors | |
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| Helioseismology | |
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| Observed and Predicted Pulsation Frequencies | |
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| Helioseismology and the Solar Interior | |
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| Structural Inversions | |
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| Rotational Inversions | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Structure and Evolution of White Dwarfs | |
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| Observed Properties of White Dwarfs | |
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| White Dwarf Evolution | |
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| Cooling of White Dwarfs | |
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| Realistic Evolutionary Calculations | |
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| The Magnetic White Dwarfs | |
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| Magnetic Field Decay | |
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| The Variable White Dwarfs | |
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| The Observed Variables | |
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| White Dwarf Seismology | |
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| White Dwarfs and the Whole Earth Telescope | |
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| Exercises | |
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| References and Suggested Readings | |
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| Mini Stellar Glossary | |
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| Table of Symbols and Physical Constants | |
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| List of Journal Abbreviations | |
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| Index | |