Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Positions of stars
- 2 Proper motions of stars
- 3 Distances of nearby stars
- 4 The brightnesses of the stars
- 5 Color magnitude diagrams
- 6 The luminosities of the stars
- 7 Angular radii of stars
- 8 Effective temperatures of stars
- 9 Masses and radii of stars
- 10 Spectral classification
- 11 Understanding stellar spectra
- 12 Population II stars
- 13 Stellar rotation
- 14 Stellar magnetic fields
- 15 Stars with peculiar spectra
- 16 Pulsating stars
- 17 Explosive stars
- 18 Our sun
- 19 Interstellar absorption
- Appendixes
- References
- Index
3 - Distances of nearby stars
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Positions of stars
- 2 Proper motions of stars
- 3 Distances of nearby stars
- 4 The brightnesses of the stars
- 5 Color magnitude diagrams
- 6 The luminosities of the stars
- 7 Angular radii of stars
- 8 Effective temperatures of stars
- 9 Masses and radii of stars
- 10 Spectral classification
- 11 Understanding stellar spectra
- 12 Population II stars
- 13 Stellar rotation
- 14 Stellar magnetic fields
- 15 Stars with peculiar spectra
- 16 Pulsating stars
- 17 Explosive stars
- 18 Our sun
- 19 Interstellar absorption
- Appendixes
- References
- Index
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- Introduction to Stellar Astrophysics , pp. 9 - 12Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989