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David

Darling

STELLAR ASTROPHYSICS

accretion
accretion disk
ambipolar diffusion
astroseismology
asymmetric drift
asymptotic giant branch

Baade-Wesselink method
Bailey types
beat Cepheid
Becklin-Neugebauer Object
bipolar flow
Blaauw mechanism
black dwarf
black hole
Blazhko effect
blue giant
blue horizontal-branch star
blue straggler
blue supergiant
brown dwarf

carbon burning
carbon star
carbon-nitrogen cycle
Cepheid variable
Chandrasekhar limit
circumstellar maser
close binary
color excess
color index
color-magnitude diagram
combined magnitude
common-envelope star
convective envelope
convective overshoot
corona

degenerate matter
differential rotation
dwarf star

Eddington limit
entrainment
envelope
extreme horizontal branch star

final helium flash object
flare
flare star
flickering
Fokker-Planck equation

gamma-ray burst
giant branch
giant star
gravitational instability

Hayashi track
heavy element
helium burning
helium flash
helium shell flash
Henyey track
Herbig Ae/Be star
Hertzspung-Russell diagram
horizontal branch
hot spot
hydrogen burning
hydrostatic equilibrium
hypergiant
hypernova

instability strip
interacting binary
intermediate population star
interstellar distances
intrinsic color index
inverse P Cygni profile

Jean's length
jet

Kelvin-Helmholtz contraction
Kramer's law

light curve
light element
lithium depletion boundary
luminosity class

magnetar
magnetic cataclysmic variable
main sequence
mass function
mass loss
mass transfer
mass-luminosity relation
mass-luminosity-radius relation
mass-radius relation
microquasar
millisecond pulsar
molecular cloud
Morgan-Keenan classification

neutron star
neutronium
non-radial pulsation
nova
nucleosynthesis

OB star
Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit
overcontact binary

P Cygni profile
period-luminosity relation
period-mass relation
period-spectra relation
planetary nebula
population
Population I
Population II
p-process
pre-main-sequence object
proton-proton chain
protoplanetary nebula
pulsar
pulsating variable

radial pulsation
red dwarf
red giant
red giant tip
red supergiant
regenerated disk
relaxation
Roche lobe
r-process
RR Lyrae star

Salpeter function
Schonberg-Chandrasekhar limit
Schwarzschild radius
shell burning
shell star
soft gamma repeater
source
speckle interferometry
spectral type
Spitzer-Schwarzschild mechanism
s-process
standard candle
standard star
star
star streaming
stars, evolution
stars, lifetimes
stars, masses
stars, numbers
stars, sizes
stars, temperatures
stellar atmosphere
stellar wind
subdwarf
subgiant
subluminous star
superflare
supergiant
super-hump
supernova
supernova imposter
super-outburst
symbiotic star

triple-alpha process
T Tauri star
turnoff point

UBV system
Urca process
UV Ceti star

variable star
velocity curve
velocity dispersion
Vogt-Russell theorem

white dwarf
Wolf-Rayet star

X-ray binary
X-ray burst
X-ray jet variable
X-ray nova
X-ray pulsar

young stellar object

zero-age main sequence