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Bookmark or Share- Question regarding two specific books on stellar structure - Physics ForumsI have a question regarding two specific books on stellar structure. Stellar structure and evolution 2nd Ed by Kippenhahn... and Stellar interiors 2nd Ed by Hansen... Can someone who is familiar with both of them compare their strengths and weaknesses and recommend one of them for serious...
- stellar evolution - Are stars getting more metal-rich, less massive and ...Therefore the stellar "ecological cycle" of birth and death results in an overall increase in the metal-richness of the interstellar medium and hence the stars that are then produced. To understand exactly the rate at which this occurs requires a complex "galactic chemical evolution model".
- Why are stellar clusters useful for developing stellar evolution models?In a theoretical stellar evolution model, one of the most basic outputs you can produce are a set of isochrones. What you do is evolve stellar models, all with the same chemical composition, but with a range of masses, and stop them all at the same age.
- Understanding diagrams of the late stages of stellar evolutionDiagrams of late stellar evolution typically depict stages such as the Red Giant phase, the Helium-burning phase, the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) phase, and the eventual outcomes like planetary nebulae and supernovae, leading to the formation of white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes.
- Stellar evolution simulation engine or softwareRegarding some of the comments to the question, stellar evolution is actually quite fast, depending what code you use. Certainly, it isn't like hydrodynamics or N-body simulations like those used in galaxy formation/evolution and large-scale structure simulations.
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