Exploring the final stages of stars in our Milky Way using large sky surveys by Sandra Magdy Kamel Greiss
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xvii Chapter 1 Motivation 1 Chapter 2 Compact stars 5 2.1 The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 Stellar evolution in a nutshell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2.1 Nuclear processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2.2 Shell-hydrogen burning and red-giant phase . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2.3 Death of stars like the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.2.4 Death of massive stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3 White Dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.3.1 Spectral types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.3.2 Mass distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.3.3 Why are they useful? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2.3.4 Pulsating white dwarfs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.3.4.1 Theoretical context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.4 Neutron Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 2.5 Black holes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2.6 Compact binary systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 2.6.1 Cataclysmic variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 2.6.2 Low-mass X-ray binaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Chapter 3 Astronomical tools and methods 30 3.1 Charge-coupled devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3.2 Photometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3.2.1 Colour-colour and colour-magnitude diagrams . . . . . . . . . 34 3.2.2 Time-series photometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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xvii Chapter 1 Motivation 1 Chapter 2 Stellar evolution, Compact Stars, Accretion discs and X-ray binaries 3 2.1 Stellar evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1.1 Star Formation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1.1.1 Protostars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.1.1.2 Stellar Mass limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 ...
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