Astrophysics of red supergiants /

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"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. An introduction to red supergiants -- 1.1. A key evolutionary phase -- 1.2. Supernova progenitors -- 1.3. Extragalactic probes2. Inside a red supergiant -- 2.1. Evolution and the stellar core -- 2.2. Envelopes and atmospheres3. Physical properties of red supergiants -- 3.1. The spectrum of a red supergiant -- 3.2. Effective temperatures -- 3.3. Masses -- 3.4. Luminosities -- 3.5. Radii -- 3.6. Surface gravities4. Mass loss and dust production in red supergiants -- 4.1. Winds and mass-loss processes -- 4.2. Dust from supergiants -- 4.3. Extreme Mass Loss in RSGs--OH/IR supergiants5. Red supergiants in binaries -- 5.1. Modeling RSG binaries -- 5.2. Observing RSGs in binaries : the VV Cep and [Zeta] Aur systems -- 5.3. Extreme binary scenarios for RSGs6. Red supergiants in and beyond the Milky Way -- 6.1. Identifying red supergiant populations -- 6.2. RSGs in the Milky Way -- 6.3. Extragalactic RSG populations -- 6.4. Metallicity effects in rsgs7. Variability in red supergiants -- 7.1. Photometric variability -- 7.2. Spectroscopic variability8. Red supergiants and supernovae -- 8.1. RSGs as direct progenitors--Type II-P supernovae -- 8.2. The "red supergiant problem" -- 8.3. RSGs as progenitor precursors9. The future of red supergiant research -- 9.1. Time domain astronomy -- 9.2. Beyond the local group -- 9.3. NGC 6946 : an example of RSG astronomy in the 2020s.Astrophysics of Red Supergiants' is the first book of its kind devoted to our current knowledge of red supergiant stars, a key evolutionary phase that is critical to our larger understanding of massive stars. It provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamental physical properties of red supergiants, their evolution, and their extragalactic and cosmological applications. It serves as a reference for researchers from a broad range of fields (including stellar astrophysics, supernovae, and high-redshift galaxies) who are interested in red supergiants as extreme stages of stellar evolution, dust producers, supernova progenitors, extragalactic metallicity indicators, members of massive binaries and mergers, or simply as compelling objects in their own right. The book is accessible to a range of experience levels, from graduate students up to senior researchers.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Emily Levesque is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her research accolades include a 2017 Alfred P Sloan fellowship in physics and the 2014 Annie Jump Cannon research prize from the American Astronomical Society. She was both an Einstein and Hubble postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado, and received her PhD in astronomy from the University of Hawaii and her SB in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 11, 2018).

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1 online resource (various pagings) :illustrations (some color).

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English

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9780750313292

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SCIENCE / Astronomy.
Galaxies & stars.
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