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50 years of brown dwarfs : from prediction to discovery to forefront of research / Viki Joergens, editor.
Van Pelt Library QB843.B77 F54 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Astrophysics and space science library ; v. 401.
- Astrophysics and space science library, 0067-0057 ; 401
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brown dwarf stars.
- Astrophysics.
- Stars--Formation.
- Stars.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 168 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Fifty years of brown dwarfs
- Place of Publication:
- Cham [Switzerland] ; New York : Springer, [2014]
- Contents:
- The theoretical prediction of the existence of brown dwarfs by Shiv S. Kumar / Viki Joergens
- Pre-main sequence evolution and the hydrogen-burning minimum mass / Takenori Nakano
- Brown is not a color : introduction of the term 'brown dwarf' / Jill Tarter
- Teide 1 and the discovery of brown dwarfs / Rafael Rebolo
- The discovery of the first lithium brown dwarf, PPl 15 / Gibor Basri
- Companions of stars : from other stars to brown dwarfs to planets and the discovery of the first methane brown dwarf / Ben R. Oppenheimer
- Ultracool objects : L, T, and Y dwarfs / Michael C. Cushing
- Latest news on the physics of brown dwarfs / Isabelle Baraffe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783319011615
- 3319011618
- OCLC:
- 868887756
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