| Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram: Proceedings of the Asteroseismology Workshop Porto, Portugal 1-5 July 2002 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Thompson, Michael J. (Editor), Cunha, Margarida S. (Editor), Monteiro, Mário J. P. F. G. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1402011733 ISBN-13: 9781402011733 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2003 Annotation: This book aims to facilitate a cross-fertilisation of ideas and approaches between fields covering different pulsators and with different areas of expertise. The book successfully covers most known types of pulsators, reflecting a highly productive and far reaching interchange of ideas which we believe is conveyed by the papers and posters published, making it a reference for researchers and postgraduate students working on stellar structure and evolution. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Astrophysics - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General - Science | Astronomy |
| Dewey: 523.8 |
| LCCN: 2003046630 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.6" W x 9.74" (1.57 lbs) 294 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: We stand at the threshold of an exciting era of Asteroseismology. In a few months' time, the Canadian small-satellite asteroseismology mission MOST will be laun- ched. Danish and French missions MONS and COROT should follow, with the ESA mission Eddington following in 2007/8. Helioseismology has proved spec- tacularly successful in imaging the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun and probing the physics of the solar interior. Ground-based observations have detected solar-like oscillations on alpha Centauri A and other Sun-like stars, and diagnostics similar to those used in helioseismology are now being used to test and constrain the physics and evolutionary state of these stars. Multi-mode oscillations are being observed in an abundance of other stars, including slowly pulsating B stars (SPB stars), delta Scuti stars, Ap stars and the pulsating white dwarfs. New classes of pulsators continue to be discovered across the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram. For good reason it was decided to entitle our conference 'Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram' . Yet the challenges still to be faced to make asteroseismology across the HR diagram a reality are formidable. Observation, data analysis and theory all pose hard problems to be overcome. In conceiving this meeting, the aim of the organisers was to facilitate a cross-fertilization of ideas and approaches between researchers working on different pulsators and with different areas of expertise. We venture to suggest that in this the conference was a great success. |