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Stars as Laboratories for Fundamental Physics - MPP Theory Group

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662 Subject Index<br />

spin-spin interaction potential 141, 151<br />

starburst galaxies 446<br />

stars<br />

ages 27, 35, 43, 62f, 552–54<br />

<strong>for</strong>mation 24–27<br />

initial m<strong>as</strong>s function 24<br />

intermediate-m<strong>as</strong>s 37<br />

m<strong>as</strong>s loss 25, 34, 36<br />

m<strong>as</strong>s range 24<br />

m<strong>as</strong>sive 37–39<br />

populations in color-magnitude<br />

diagram 41<br />

variable 12, 39–41, 52–54<br />

statistical parallaxes 73<br />

Stefan-Boltzmann law 409<br />

stellar collapse → supernova: type II<br />

stellar evolution<br />

bibliography 24<br />

descriptive overview 23–41<br />

evolutionary track 31<br />

main ph<strong>as</strong>es 30<br />

stellar oscillations → helioseismology,<br />

variable stars, ZZ Ceti stars<br />

stellar structure<br />

convective 12f<br />

equations 5–14<br />

examples <strong>for</strong> models 29f<br />

generic c<strong>as</strong>es 7–10<br />

homologous models 14–16, 549, 552<br />

long-range <strong>for</strong>ce: new 113<br />

sterile neutrinos<br />

→ neutrinos: right-handed<br />

Stodolsky’s <strong>for</strong>mula 313–15, 324f<br />

Stokes parameters 286<br />

strange quark matter xv, 157–59, 557<br />

structure function<br />

Coulomb pl<strong>as</strong>ma 106, 222–25<br />

dynamical<br />

cl<strong>as</strong>sical 146f<br />

detailed balance 129, 137, 146<br />

<strong>for</strong>mal definition 136–43, 323<br />

long-wavelength limit 121, 128f,<br />

141–43<br />

Lorentzian model 135, 144–47<br />

nuclear medium 128f, 135, 146–51,<br />

161–63<br />

spin-density 138<br />

static 137, 222–25<br />

subgiant 27, 28<br />

sum rules 139–41<br />

Sun<br />

→ solar neutrino flux<br />

activity cycle 373–76, 387f<br />

axion spectrum 175<br />

bounds on<br />

axion flux 100, 181, 191f<br />

time-varying G N 549–51<br />

deflection of neutrinos 247f<br />

energy-loss argument 16f, 20f, 109f,<br />

175f<br />

global properties<br />

central temperature 7, 353<br />

convective layer 550<br />

distance 341, 372<br />

Kelvin-Helmholtz time scale 8<br />

helium abundance 16f, 351, 549f<br />

luminosity 8, 341<br />

magnetic field 186, 373–76, 387f,<br />

554, 565<br />

m<strong>as</strong>s 7<br />

pl<strong>as</strong>ma properties 599<br />

radius 7, 351<br />

opacity 21, 345, 353–55<br />

positron flux limits 457, 461<br />

spots 186, 373–76<br />

standard model 29, 351–53<br />

x- and γ-ray flux 458–62<br />

superfluidity in neutron stars 58f<br />

Superkamiokande (Cherenkov detector)<br />

343, 371, 390–2<br />

supernova<br />

→ SN 1987A<br />

burst observatory 448<br />

core collapse → supernova: type II<br />

energetics: particle bounds 483<br />

future 445–48<br />

Kepler’s 39<br />

galactic<br />

positron flux 484f<br />

rate 39, 446, 487f<br />

remnants 38f, 56–58<br />

SN 1054 → 38<br />

Tycho’s 39<br />

type I → 36, 546<br />

unit (SNu) 488

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