Age-Dating Stars: From the Sun to Distant Galaxies

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nDedication\nContents\nPreface\nChapter 1: You Must Be Crazy\n	1.1. WHY DO AGES OF STARS MATTER?\n	1.2. AGE OF THE SUN, GEOLOGY, AND BIOLOGY\n	1.3. CONFLICT OVER THE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE\nChapter 2: An Echo of the Distant Past\n	2.1. GALAXIES\n	2.2. EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE AND COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND RADIATION\n	2.3. THE BIG-BANG COSMOLOGICAL MODEL\n		2.3.1. Nucleosynthesis and the Origin of the CMB Radiation\n		2.3.2. Inflation\n	2.4. THE FORMATION OF GALAXIES\nChapter 3: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Stars\n	3.1. EARLY IDEAS\n		3.1.1. Stellar Spectra\n	3.2. THE HERTZSPRUNG-RUSSELL DIAGRAM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF STELLAR EVOLUTION THEORIES\n	3.3. THE ENERGY SOURCE\n	3.4. GIANT STARS AND WHITE DWARFS\nChapter 4: Introducing the Machine\n	4.1. THE EQUATIONS OF STELLAR STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION\n	4.2. A SUMMARY OF STELLAR EVOLUTION\n		4.2.1. Binary Stars\n	4.3. STELLAR EVOLUTION TRACKS AND ISOCHRONES\nChapter 5: Great Hopes\n	5.1. RED GIANT BRANCH STARS\n	5.2. NEUTRINOS FROM THE SUN\n	5.3. NEUTRINOS FROM SUPERNOVAE\n	5.4. HELIOSEISMOLOGY: THE SUN IS IN TUNE\n		5.4.1. Asteroseismology\nChapter 6: Hipparcos\' Legacy\n	6.1. MAGNITUDES AND COLOURS\n	6.2. CHEMICAL COMPOSITION\n	6.3. DIRECT MEASUREMENTS OF RADIUS, LUMINOSITY AND TEMPERATURE\nChapter 7: This Is What We Do\n	7.1. THE SUN\n		7.1.1. The Faint Young Sun Problem\n	7.2. AGE OF INDIVIDUAL STARS\n		7.2.1. Ages from Radioactive Elements\n	7.3. AGE OF STAR CLUSTERS\n		7.3.1. Vertical and Horizontal Parameters\n	7.4. AGES FROM SURFACE CHEMICAL ABUNDANCES\nChapter 8: Crazy Diamonds\n	8.1. WHITE DWARF EVOLUTION\n	8.2. AGES OF WHITE DWARFS\n		8.2.1. Star Clusters\n		8.2.2. The White Dwarf Population of the Old Open Cluster NGC 6791\nChapter 9: Far Away Beyond the Field\n	9.1. STAR FORMATION HISTORIES OF GALAXIES\n	9.2. UNRESOLVED STELLAR POPULATIONS\n		9.2.1. Integrated magnitudes\n		9.2.2. Integrated Spectra\nChapter 10: What Now?\n	10.1. HOW ACCURATE ARE OUR AGES?\n	10.2. RECEDING HORIZONS\nAppendix A: Assorted (astro-) Physics\n	A.1. CHEMICAL ELEMENTS, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE\n		A.1.1. Mass-Energy Equivalence\n	A.2. THERMODYNAMICS\n	A.3. PARALLAX DISTANCES\n	A.4. SPECTROSCOPIC PARALLAX\n	A.5. MASS, RADIUS, AND DISTANCE OF STARS IN ECLIPSING BINARY SYSTEMS\nBibliography\nIndex