New Light on Dark Stars: Red Dwarfs, Low-Mass Stars, Brown StarsThere has been very considerable progress in research into low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets during the past few years, particularly since the fist edtion of this book was published in 2000. In this new edtion the authors present a comprehensive review of both the astrophysical nature of individual red dwarf and brown dwarf stars and their collective statistical properties as an important Galactic stellar population. Chapters dealing with the observational properies of low-mass dwarfs, the stellar mass function and extrasolar planets have been completely revised. Other chapters have been significantly revised and updated as appropriate, including important new material on observational techniques, stellar acivity, the Galactic halo and field star surveys. The authors detail the many discoveries of new brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets made since publication of the first edition of the book and provide a state-of-the-art review of our current knowledge of very low-mass stars, brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets, including both the latest observational results and theoretical work. |
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New Light on Dark Stars: Red Dwarfs, Low-Mass Stars, Brown Stars Neil Reid,Suzanne Hawley Limited preview - 2005 |
New Light on Dark Stars: Red Dwarfs, Low-Mass Stars, Brown Dwarfs I. Neill Reid,Suzanne L. Hawley No preview available - 2000 |
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2MASS 8-parsec absolute magnitude absorption abundance activity analysis apparent magnitude astrometric atmosphere bands binary brown dwarfs calibration catalogue Chapter chromospheric cluster members colours companions components convection density derived detected diagram disk dwarfs distance distribution dynamical effective emission energy equation estimate fainter Fe/H field Figure flare flux Galactic Disk Galaxy giant Gizis globular clusters halo Hipparcos Hyades hydrogen identified imaging infrared L dwarfs late-type limit low-mass stars luminosity function magnetic main sequence mass function mass-luminosity measured metal-poor metallicity MNRAS models molecular near-infrared nearby stars objects observations opacity open clusters optical orbital parallax parsecs passbands photometric photosphere planetary planets Pleiades plotted predicted proper motion proper-motion radial velocity radius regions Reid relative rotation sample SDSS Section sequence stars shows spectral type spectroscopic spectrum star formation star-forming stars and brown stellar subdwarfs surveys telescope temperature theoretical wavelengths white dwarf X-ray