Mass Transfer in Close Binary Stars
Subtitle: Gas Dynamical Treatment (Advances in Astronomy and Astrophysics)
Publisher: CRC
Published: June 14, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780415273534
First sentence: After the birth of a star and its arrival on the main sequence of the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram, the essence of the evolution of a single star is the counteraction of nuclear burning processes, resulting in energy release in the centre of the star, and its gravitational contraction.