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Very Massive Stars in the Local Universe

By Jorick S. Vink (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2015
ISBN
978-3-319-09595-0, 978-3-319-09596-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-09596-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8186498 bytes)
Series
Astrophysics and Space Science Library 412
Edition
1
Pages
268\277
Topic
Physics\\Astronomy: Astrophysics
Time added
2014-11-10 20:00:00
Astrophysics and Astroparticles; AstronomyObservations and Techniques

Description

This book presents the status of research on very massive stars in the Universe. While it has been claimed that stars with over 100 solar masses existed in the very early Universe, recent studies have also discussed the existence and deaths of stars up to 300 solar masses in the local Universe. This represents a paradigm shift for the stellar upper-mass limit, which may have major implications far beyond the field of stellar physics. The book comprises 7 chapters, which describe this discipline and provide sufficient background and introductory content for graduate (PhD) students and researchers from different branches of astronomy to be able to enter this exciting new field of very massive stars.

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