Late Stages of Stellar Evolution

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Nuclear Reactions and Neutrinos in Stellar Evolution....Pages 1-14
Screening Factors in Late Stellar Evolution....Pages 15-16
The Explosive r -Process....Pages 17-17
Hot CNO-Ne Cycles....Pages 18-18
Discussion Following Paper by Arnett....Pages 19-19
Circulation and Mixing....Pages 20-40
On the Mixing of the Matter in Semiconvective Regions of Massive Stars....Pages 41-41
Discussion Following Paper by Kippenhahn....Pages 42-42
Non-Explosive Mass Loss....Pages 43-53
Mass Ejection by Radiation Pressure....Pages 54-55
Stellar Envelopes at Supercritical Luminosity....Pages 56-56
Discussion Following Paper by Woolf....Pages 57-58
Review of IAU Symposium No. 59 on Stellar Instability and Evolution, Canberra, August 1973....Pages 59-60
Discussion Following Paper by Iben....Pages 61-61
Evolution of Stars with M ≤ 8 M ⊙ ....Pages 62-69
The URCA Process in Convective Cores....Pages 70-70
Discussion Following Paper by Paczyński....Pages 71-72
Evolution of Stars with M ≥ 8 M ⊙ ....Pages 73-92
Stability Properties of Stars with Central He Burning....Pages 93-94
The Effect of Changing the Initial Chemical Composition on the Evolution of a 20 M ⊙ Star....Pages 95-95
Evolution of Massive Close Binaries....Pages 96-97
On the Evolutionary Stage of V448 Cyg....Pages 98-98
The Investigation of Open Clusters by Means of Theoretical HR-Diagrams....Pages 99-99
Integral Parameters and the Total Mass of Open Clusters....Pages 100-100
Mass Loss from Stars and the Location of Blue Supergiants in the HR Diagram....Pages 101-101
Supergiant Stars as Chemical Composition Indicators....Pages 102-102
Discussion after Paper by Massevitch....Pages 103-104
Mixing between the Core and the Envelope in Stars with Deep Convection Zones....Pages 105-121
Evolutionary Abundance Changes in the Envelopes of Moderate Mass Red Supergiants....Pages 122-122
Surface Abundances Resulting from Deep Mixing....Pages 123-124
Mixing in Stars....Pages 125-126
Interpretation of Carbon Stars....Pages 127-127
Discussion after Paper by Sugimoto....Pages 128-129
Presupernovae....Pages 130-148
Do Pulsars Make Supernovae?....Pages 149-149
Evolution of Massive Stars from Helium Burning to the Start of Neutronization....Pages 150-150
On the Final Fate of Differentially Rotating Degenerate Configurations....Pages 151-151
The Explosion of a Rotating Magnetized Star as a Supernova....Pages 152-152
Iron Core Collapse in 10 to 30 M ⊙ Stars and the Effect of µ Neutrinos....Pages 153-153
Discussion after Paper by Nadyozhin....Pages 154-154
The Theory of Novae and Nova-Like Systems....Pages 155-167
Possible Progenitors of Some Nova-Like Variables....Pages 168-170
Discussion after Paper by Faulkner....Pages 171-171
Observational Data on Novae and Supernovae....Pages 172-184
Early Photographic Observations of Red and Infrared Features in the Spectrum of SN 1972e....Pages 185-186
The Reliability of Photometric and Spectroscopic Data of Novae....Pages 187-188
On the Frequencies of Type I and Type II Supernovae....Pages 189-190
Contracting Envelopes of Novae after Outbursts....Pages 191-191
On the Peculiarities of the Star Listed as Nova Aurigae 1960–64 (KR Aur)....Pages 192-193
Evidence for Continued Ejection Models of Novae....Pages 194-194
A Note on the Possible Evolutionary Status of the Recurrent Nova T CrB....Pages 195-195
Discussion after Paper by Mustel....Pages 196-197
The Chemical Composition of Late Type Stars....Pages 198-205
Abundances in Ap Stars; Result of Magnetic Binary Evolution....Pages 206-207
Helium Abundance from Radio Recombination Lines....Pages 208-208
Discussion after Paper by Boyarchuk....Pages 209-209
FG Sagittae: The s -Process Episode....Pages 210-210
Deciphering FG Sagittae....Pages 211-211
Discussion after Paper by Kraft....Pages 212-212
Nuclei of Planetary Nebulae....Pages 213-219
Discussion after Paper by O’Dell....Pages 220-221
White Dwarfs....Pages 222-230
The Sources of Energy in White Dwarfs....Pages 231-231
Degenerate Dwarfs with Liquefying Cores....Pages 232-233
Evidence for g -Mode Oscillations in the Peculiar Blue Variable CD −42°14462....Pages 234-234
Circulation in Differentially Rotating White Dwarfs....Pages 235-235
Discussion after Paper by Vila....Pages 236-236
Horizontal Branch Stars....Pages 237-237
Four-Color Observations of Blue Horizontal-Branch Stars....Pages 238-239
On the Behaviour of Globular Cluster Red Giants in the Color-Magnitude Diagram....Pages 240-243
Photometric Behaviour of Field RR Lyrae Stars....Pages 244-244
What Snu? the Case of the Missing Solar Neutrinos....Pages 245-248
The Interior Structure of the Sun as Gleaned from the Various Explanations of the Null Solar Neutrino Experiment Results....Pages 249-249
Effect of Magnetic Field on Solar Neutrino Flux....Pages 250-250
Praesepe: No Evidence for Solar Mixing....Pages 251-251
A Listener’s Digest of IAU Symposium No. 64 on Gravitational Radiation and Gravitational Collapse....Pages 252-253
General Discussion....Pages 254-255
Concluding Remarks....Pages 256-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-269