Inside the Stars

Part I Understanding the Inside of the Sun 1 A Glimpse of the Solar Interior 2 The Sun as a Star 3 The Role of Radiation Inside Stars 4 The Nature of Star Stuff 5 Discovering the Source of Solar Energy 6 Properties of the Matter Inside Stars Part II A Closer Look at the Solar Interior 7 How Our Understanding of the Present Sun Developed 8 Ghost Particles from the Center of the Sun 9 The Sounds of Sunlight Part III From the Sun to the Stars 10 Properties of Main Sequence Stars 11 Where Do Stars Come From? 12 Failed Stars: Brown Dwarfs Part IV Why and How Stars Evolve and Die 13 What Happens When a Low-Mass Star Exhausts Its Nuclear Fuel? 14 How an Intermediate-Mass Star Becomes a White Dwarf 15 White Dwarfs: Fading Embers of Burnt-Out Stars 16 The Evolution of High-Mass Stars and Supernovae 17 Astrophysical Alchemy: Origins of the Chemical Elements 18 Neutron Stars 19 Stellar-Mass Black Holes and Gravitational Waves Part V Stars with Special Characteristics 20 Pulsating Stars 21 Cataclysmic Variables 22 The First Stars Appendix A: Forms of the Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram Appendix B: Some Physical Properties of the Sun Appendix C: Zero-Age Main Sequence Stars Appendix D: Electron Degeneracy Appendix E: Properties of Some Brown Dwarf Stars Appendix F: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Appendix G: Zero-Age Main Sequence Models for the First Stars Bibliography