Index Product Information Information Exchange Introduction to Stellar Winds Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers and Joseph P. Cassinelli Cambridge U. P., New York, 1999.
Stellar winds play a role in the evolution of nearly all stars at some point in their history.
Stellar winds also pump energy into the material surrounding the stars, and they return chemically reprocessed material to and create many of the visible structures in the interstellar medium. Some of the physical processes that are involved in driving stellar winds are also important in accretion disks in, for example, binary stars and active galactic nuclei. Both theory and observational results are widely scattered through the literature and take some effort to find. Henny Lamers and Joseph Cassinelli have now solved this problem with Introduction to Stellar Winds , an elegant book about stellar winds and mass loss that is a masterpiece of thoroughness, organization, and clarity. The first part is a very short chapter on the history of the field.