THE ORIGIN OF THE STARS: THE CAUSES OF THEIR MOTIONS AND THEIR LIGHT
CONTENTS STARS—FUNDAMENTALS OF THEIR PHYSICS BASIC STRUCTURE OF STARS BASIC ASSUMPTIONS THE CONCEPT OF HYDROSTATIC EQUILIBRIUM ENERGY TRANSPORT AND ENERGY SOURCES ENERGY TRANSPORT TIME SCALES THE DYNAMIC TIME SCALE THERMAL TIME SCALE NUCLEAR TIME SCALE COMPARISON OF TIME SCALES THE VIRIAL THEOREM STAR CLASSI?CATION SPECTRAL LINE FORMATION SPECTRAL CLASSES THE HERTZSPRUNG-RUSSELL DIAGRAM EVOLUTION OF STARS STELLAR EVOLUTION IN THE H-R DIAGRAM EVOLUTION OF A STAR WITH 1 M? STARS WITH MASS GREATER THAN THAT OF THE SUN FINAL STAGES OF STELLAR EVOLUTION WHITE DWARFS AND THE CHANDRASEKHAR LIMIT NEUTRON STARS BLACK HOLES REFERENCES FORMATION OF STARS WHERE DO STARS FORM INTERSTELLAR DUST INTERSTELLAR GAS THE CONTRACTING PHASE THE JEANS CRITERION THE ANGULAR MOMENTUM PROBLEM FORMATION OF PLANETS OBSERVATION RESULTS HERBIG STARS OBSERVATIONS OF ACCRETION DISKS STELLAR ROTATION–HOW TO OBSERVE IT SPECTRAL LINE FORMATION AND ROTATION EQUIVALENT WIDTH DOPPLERBROADENING NATURAL LINE WIDTH COLLISION BROADENING TURBULENT VELOCITIES OBSERVATIONAL EXAMPLES ROTATION BROADENING ROTATION DERIVED FROM LIGHT CURVE ANALYSIS DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION ASTEROSEISMOLOGY BINARY STARS WHY ARE BINARY STARS SO IMPORTANT FOR ROTATION BINARY STARS AND MASS EXCHANGE BINARIES AND STAR-DISK LOCKING MECHANISM STELLAR ROTATION ALONG THE HR-DIAGRAM PRE-MAIN SEQUENCE EVOLUTION AND STELLAR ROTATION DE?NITION OF THE PRE-MAIN SEQUENCE STELLAR ROTATION AND PRE-MAIN-SEQUENCE EVOLUTION MECHANISMS OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM TRANSFER DISK INTERACTION STELLAR WINDS THE KRAFT BREAK STUDIES ON STELLAR ROTATION IN STELLAR CLUSTERS ROTATION ALONG THE MAIN SEQUENCE FAST ROTATORS THE ROTATION BOUNDARY SPECIAL CASES OF STELLAR ROTATION ROTATION OF RED GIANTS STELLAR DYNAMOS OBSERVATIONAL FACTS DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION OF THE SUN THE TACHOCLINE MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION THERMAL CONVECTION EQUATIONS FOR MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATION IN STARS PRECESSION-DRIVEN DYNAMOS COLLISION MECHANICAL STIRRING TIDAL DYNAMO ACTION HIDDEN DYNAMO FAST AND SLOW ROTATION THE ROLE OF MAGNETIC FIELDS DYNAMO ACTION AND CONVECTION DYNAMO SATURATION STELLAR ROTATION AND STELLAR ACTIVITY DETECTION OF STELLAR ACTIVITY STELLAR BRIGHTNESS LIGHTCURVES STARSPOTS BASIC PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION OF STELLAR ROTATION HYDROSTATIC EFFECTS VON ZEIPEL THEOREM TRANSPORT OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM AND CHEMICAL ELEMENTS INSTABILITIES T TAURI STARS GENERAL PROPERTIES THE ROLE OF LI IN T TAURI STARS T TAURI STARS AND MAGNETIC ACTIVITY ANALOGS OF T TAURI STARS LATE TYPE STARS: ACTIVITY AND ROTATION M STARS AND HABITABILITY INDICES OF STELLAR ACTIVITY MOUNT WILSON S-INDEX RHK-INDEX R? HKINDEX STELLAR ACTIVITY AND ROTATION MASS LOSS AND STELLAR ROTATION MASS AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM LOSS ROTATIONAL PROPERTIES OF COMPACT OBJECTS WHITE DWARFS PROPERTIES OF WHITE DWARFS FAST AND SLOW ROTATING WHITE DWARFS OBSERVATION OF ROTATION OF WHITE DWARFS ISOLATED WHITE DWARFS AND WHITE DWARFS IN BINARY SYSTEMS WHITE DWARFS, STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS, DARK MATTER FAST ROTATION OF NEUTRON STARS NEUTRON STARS: ROTATION AND PULSATION SPIN-DOWN OF NEUTRON STARS SUMMARY OF PULSAR EVOLUTION EINSTEIN’S FIELD EQUATIONS TYPES OF BLACK HOLES SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES