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Circumstellar matter.
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1 online resource (xiv, 683 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Setting the Stage -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. General Scenario and Historical Background -- 1.2. Diagnostic Insight into Circumstellar Dust Shells -- 1.3. Circumstellar Dust in the Laboratory -- 1.4. Circumstellar Shell Dynamics and Stellar Winds -- 2. Evolutionary Status of Dust-Enshrouded Objects -- 2.1. Evolution from the Main Sequence toward the AGB -- 2.2. Abundance Changes by First and Second "Dredge-Up" -- 2.3. The Thermally Pulsing AGB -- 2.4. Abundance Changes on the AGB by the Third Dredge-Up -- 2.5. Post-AGB Evolution -- 2.6. Elemental Abundances -- pt. II Theoretical Description of Circumstellar Dust Shells -- 3. Theory of Circumstellar Dust Shells -- 3.1. Multicomponent Medium -- 3.2. General Conservation Laws and Balance Equations -- 3.3. Multicomponent Mass Equations of Change -- 3.4. Momentum Equations of Change. |
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3.5. Multicomponent Approaches -- 3.6. Stellar Mass Loss and Winds -- 4. Energy Equation for Matter -- 4.1. Total Energy Density and the Bulk Energy Equation -- 4.2. External Energy Sources: Gravity and Radiation -- 4.3. Multicomponent Energy Equations -- 4.4. Equations of Change for the Inner Energy Reservoirs -- 4.5. Elementary Forms of Internal Energy -- 4.6. Temperature Equations -- 4.7. Completion of the System of Transport Equations of Matter -- 5. Radiative Transfer -- 5.1. Basic Definitions -- 5.2. Angular Moments of the Radiation Field -- 5.3. Equation of Radiative Transfer -- 5.4. Transport Coefficients -- 5.5. Stationary Radiative Transfer Equation -- 5.6. Stationary Moment Equations of Radiative Transfer -- 5.7. Radiation Force Density and Radiative Net Energy Transfer Rate -- 5.8. Symmetric Situations -- 6. Interaction between Gas and Dust Particles -- 6.1. Some Basic Considerations -- 6.2. Collision Rate between Gas and Dust. |
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6.3. Momentum Transfer between Gas and Dust -- 6.4. Specular Reflection -- 6.5. Particle Sticking -- 6.6. Thermal Accommodation -- 6.7. Diffuse Reflection -- 6.8. Particle Drift -- 6.9. Drag Force -- 7. Extinction by Dust Grains -- 7.1. Optical Constants -- 7.2. Models for the Dielectric Function -- 7.3. Absorption and Scattering by Grains -- 7.4. Optical Constants of Abundant Dust Materials -- 7.5. Absorption by Dust -- 7.6. Radiation Pressure on Dust Grains -- 8. Approaches to the Temperature Equations -- 8.1. Radiative Equilibrium -- 8.2. Local Thermal Equilibrium -- 8.3. Radiative Equilibrium Temperature with Local Thermal Equilibrium -- 8.4. Non-Local Thermal Equilibrium Aspects -- 9. Chemistry in Thermodynamic Equilibrium -- 9.1. The Basic Thermodynamic Relations -- 9.2. Equilibrium Conditions for Gases and Solids -- 9.3. Constraints Set by Element Abundances -- 9.4. Some Results of Statistical Mechanics. |
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9.5. Thermodynamic Data -- 10. Gas-Phase Chemical Composition -- 10.1. Qualitative Considerations on Molecule Formation -- 10.2. Restrictions from Element Abundances and Bond Energies -- 10.3. Calculation of Chemical Equilibrium Compositions -- 10.4. Results for Cosmic Element Mixtures -- 10.5. Nonequilibrium Chemistry -- 11. Gas-Solid Chemical Equilibria -- 11.1. Equilibria in Gas-Solid Mixtures -- 11.2. Condensation Equilibria of Pure Phases I: O-Rich Mixture -- 11.3. Condensation Equilibria of Pure Phases II: C-Rich Mixture -- 11.4. Solid Solutions -- 12. Growth of Dust Grains -- 12.1. Theoretical Description of Growth Processes -- 12.2. Theoretical Description of Vaporization Processes -- 12.3. Calculation of Vapor Composition -- 12.4. Equation for Grain Growth -- 12.5. Equations for Some Important Dust Materials -- 12.6. Solid Solutions -- 12.7. Experimental Data for Condensation Coefficients. |
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12.8. Core-Mantle Grains -- 12.9. Formation of Crystalline Dust -- 13. Formation of Seed Nuclei -- 13.1. Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nucleation -- 13.2. Bond Energies of Small Clusters -- 13.3. Kinetic Theory of Homogeneous Condensation -- 13.4. Cluster Densities in Thermodynamic Equilibrium -- 13.5. Nucleation Rate and Cluster Size Spectrum -- 13.6. Candidates for the Nucleation Process -- 13.7. Classical Nucleation Theory -- 14. Moment Equations -- 14.1. Growth of an Ensemble of Dust Grains in Stellar Outflows -- 14.2. Moments of the Distribution Function -- 14.3. Consumption of Condensible Material -- 14.4. Types of Size Distributions -- 14.5. Particle Drift -- pt. III Applications -- 15. Modeling of Circumstellar Dust Shells -- 15.1. Basic Ingredients for Reliable Shell Modeling -- 15.2. Spherical Stationary Stellar Dust Winds -- 15.3. Shell Chemistry and Transport Coefficients -- 15.4. Stationary Dust-Driven Winds. |
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15.5. Models of Stationary Dust-Driven Winds -- 15.6. Two-Fluid Wind Models -- 15.7. Parameter Limitations for Stationary Dust-Driven Winds -- 15.8. General Properties of Stationary Dust-Driven Mass Loss -- 15.9. Reliability of Purely Dust-Driven Wind Models -- 16. Miras and Long-Period Variables -- 16.1. Basic Model Ingredients -- 16.2. Steps toward a Reliable Modeling -- 16.3. Consistent Modeling of Pulsational Circumstellar Dust Shells -- 16.4. Modeling Procedure -- 16.5. Consistent Models of Pulsating C-Star Shells -- 16.6. Space-Time Evolution of the Isothermal Reference Model -- 16.7. Multiperiodicity -- 16.8. Radiative Transfer and Spectral Appearance -- 16.9. Main Results of Carbon-Rich Shells -- 16.10. Oxygen-Rich Miras and LPVs -- 17. Mass-Loss Formulas -- 17.1. Formulas Based on Empirical Correlations -- 17.2. Synthetic Relations Based on Consistent Models -- 17.3. Effects of the Model Parameters -- 17.4. Superwind. |
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18. R Coronae Borealis Stars -- 18.1. Light Curves of R CrB Stars -- 18.2. Stellar Pulsations -- 18.3. Attempts at Modeling -- pt. IV Appendices -- Appendix 1 Solution of the Radiative-Transfer Problem for Spherical Symmetry -- A1.1. Method of Mihalas and Hummer -- A1.2. Lucy Approximation -- A1.3. Unno-Kondo Approach -- Appendix 2 Numerics of Time-Dependent Problems -- A2.1. Full Discretization and Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy Condition -- A2.2. Semidiscretization -- A2.3. Basic Characterization of Available Codes -- A2.4. Rezoning Scheme -- Appendix 3 Non-LTE Effects and Molecular Cooling Functions -- A3.1. Radiative Energy Exchange -- Appendix 4 Thermochemical Data for Some Solids -- A4.1. Vapor Pressure of Ice -- Appendix 5 Symbols for Mineral Names. |
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Sedlmayr, Erwin, 1942-
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9780511985607 (ebook) |
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9780521833790 (hardback) |
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