Presolar Grains in Extra-Terrestrial Materials: Probing Stars with Stardust presents the latest research on presolar grains and their stellar sources in a cohesive resource for bringing researchers in cosmochemistry, astrophysics, and astronomy up to speed on the state-of-the-art developments, analysis, and future implications. Beginning with a historical perspective on the study of presolar grains, the book then reviews the properties and features of a variety of presolar grains, including sililcon carbide, graphite, diamonds, oxides, and silicates. It also includes techniques for analyzing presolar grains in the lab, and covers the stars that are considered sources of presolar grains, such as asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, supernovae, novae, and born-again AGB stars. Condensation calculations in various types of stars and minerals observed and/or expected in the stellar atmospheres and presolar grains are also presented.
By providing the latest state in the study of of presolar grains and relevant fields of astronomy and astrophysics, Presolar Grains in Extra-Terrestrial Materials serves as an up-to-date summary of data, analysis, and implications of the study of presolar grains and their stellar sources.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Researchers, professors, and graduate students in the fields of astrophysics, cosmochemistry, and astronomy
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
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Maße
Höhe: 236 mm
Breite: 190 mm
Dicke: 30 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-12-821830-3 (9780128218303)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Sachiko Amari obtained her PhD for the noble gas study in deep-sea sediments in 1986 from Kobe University in Japan. She started working on meteorites and presolar grains when she became a postdoctoral fellow at The University of Chicago in 1988. After moving to Washington University in St. Louis in 1990, she continued studying presolar grains as well as the processes and events occurring in the early solar system. She became Research Professor of Physics at Washington University in 2008. Her research interests revolve around the formation and the early history of the solar system and beyond. She uses secondary ion mass spectrometry to study presolar grains. She is also working on trying to identify the material and the trapping mechanisms of noble gases, which will give us insight into the processes that occurred in the early solar system.
Herausgeber*in
Washington University in St Louis, USA
Part I: Presolar grains
1. History
2. Silicon carbide (SiC)
3. Graphite
4. Oxides and silicates
5. Diamonds
6. Refractory carbides
7. Condensations of minerals in the stellar outflow/ejecta
Part II: Stellar sources of presolar grains
8. Asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars
9. Supernovae
10. Novae
