The Bottom of the Main Sequence — And Beyond Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 10–12 August 1994

The Bottom of the Main Sequence — And Beyond Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 10–12 August 1994 / edited by Christopher G. Tinney.

This is a complete overview of the state of the art in the study of very-low-mass stars, particularly brown dwarfs. It covers observations as well as modelling techniques, especially addressing the current status of our theoretical understanding of these objects, and the relation of observed luminos...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Tinney, Christopher G. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1995.
Edition:1st ed. 1995.
Series:ESO Astrophysics Symposia, European Southern Observatory,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Observations, Astronomical.
Astronomy—Observations.
Astrophysics.
Geophysics.
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Summary:This is a complete overview of the state of the art in the study of very-low-mass stars, particularly brown dwarfs. It covers observations as well as modelling techniques, especially addressing the current status of our theoretical understanding of these objects, and the relation of observed luminosity and mass functions to star formation. Besides the problems of clustering, surface activity, and current estimates of the mass density in low-mass stars, the reader will also learn how many bona fide brown dwarfs have been unambigously detected so far.
Physical Description:XVII, 309 p. 134 illus. online resource.
ISBN:9783540492177
ISSN:1431-2433
DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-49217-7

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