Chandrasekhar's book on stellar structure

Joseph Lazio wrote:
"AA" == Allan Adler writes:

AA I'm reading and enjoying S.Chandrasekhar's book on stellar
AA structure (...). I just finished the chapter on the
AA Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and noted that at the time he wrote
AA the book (around 1939) there was no good theory of the
AA transmutation reactions taking place inside the star. I was just
AA wondering what I should read that would bring the material in that
AA chapter up to date, if not the book itself.

In addition to the BBFH paper reference that's been posted already,
try Clayton, _Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis_.

And available online, there's Virginia Trimble's review "The origin
and abundances of the chemical elements" from Rev Mod Phys 47, 877 (1975)
available at
http://prola.aps.org/abstract/RMP/v47/i4/p877_1
She did a 1991 update in A&A Reviews, as well.

Hmm. Some of these citations are following Virginia's own dictum that
the end of the "classical era" in any field tends to coincide
with an author's years in grad school.


Bill Keel