White Dwarf Stars
Eddington’s theory of stars was a great success. To recall, this theory was predicated on the assumption that stars are globes of ideal gas in radiative equilibrium. The spectacular agreement between many of the predictions of this theory and observations
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Ganesan Srinivasan
Life and Death of the Stars
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Life and Death of the Stars
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Ganesan Srinivasan Bangalore India
Originally published by Universities Press (India) Private Limited 2011, ISBN 9788173717420
ISSN 2192-4791 ISSN 2192-4805 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-45383-0 ISBN 978-3-642-45384-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-45384-7 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013956803 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws
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