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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Martin Beech |
| ISBN: | 9780387681283 0387681280 9780387681290 0387681299 |
| OCLC Number: | 123374505 |
| Description: | xi, 225 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Comments on units and notation -- 1. A universal problems -- Dealing with Fermi -- The Drake equation -- "Hey! Over here!" -- Caveat -- Types of civilizations -- Moving forward -- 2. It's a matter of time -- Time and transformation -- The deadly Earth -- The deadly solar system -- The deadly stars -- Deadly novae -- GRBs and hypernovae -- Deep time -- The doomsday event -- The long and the short of it -- Making the best of it -- Dyson spheres -- Terraforming -- Space structures -- Thinking long-term -- 3. The Sun, inside and out -- Star basics -- The dynamical timescale -- Hydrostatic equilibrium -- The pressure law -- The central temperature -- Photon diffusion time -- Energy transport -- The surface temperature of a star -- Stellar luminosity -- Energy generation -- Nuclear fusion -- The mass luminosity law -- A journey through the HR diagram -- The journey for gigantism -- A negative feedback system -- Fundamental constants -- The quantum world of the electron -- Collapsing gas clouds -- Why stars are massive -- A constraint on planet building -- 4. The price of doing nothing -- The habitability zone -- The ocean on Europa -- A brief aside : utilizing Europa -- Moon life -- Synchronization and the Moon effect -- The upper limit -- A moving habitability zone -- The beginning of the end -- The fate of Venus and Earth -- The outer planets -- Orbital engineering -- Waving the flag -- End games and exotic worlds -- A moving imperative -- 5. Rejuvenating the Sun -- The engineering options -- Mixing and mass loss -- Adding to the pressure -- The opacity effect -- The tools of the trade -- A homogeneous star model -- Introducing mass-loss -- The fate of the ejected material -- An outline scenario for rejuvenating the Sun -- The UV problem -- The extended solar system lifetime -- Mixing it up -- Black hole mixing -- A steady stellar diet -- Brave new worlds -- Solar wrap control -- What the future holds -- 6. Stars transformed -- Revisiting Carter -- An exoplanet review -- The case of the blue stragglers -- The time of their lives -- Under construction -- On the threshold -- 7. Between now and then -- Do we have a near-term future? -- What price the future? -- Thinking long-term -- Taking the next step -- Future Earth -- Epilogue -- Glossary of terms -- Appendix A : A homogeneous star model -- Appendix B : An accreting black hole model -- Index. |
| Series Title: | Astronomers' universe |
| Responsibility: | Martin Beech. |
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