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This book deals with the underlying astrophysical mechanisms of the objects known as asymptotic giant branch stars -- the structures that occur during the dramatic period prior to a star's death. Over the past three decades, asymptotic giant branch stars have become a topic of their own, and th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Habing, Harm J.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Olofsson, Hans
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2004.
Series:Astronomy and astrophysics library.
Subjects:
Physics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Evolution, Nucleosynthesis and Pulsation
  • Synthetic AGB Evolution
  • Atmospheres of AGB Stars
  • Molecule and Grain Formation
  • Dynamics and Instabilities in Dusty Winds
  • Circumstellar Envelopes
  • AGB Stars as Tracers of Stellar Populations
  • AGB Stars in Binaries and their Progeny
  • Post-AGB Stars
  • Index.