Chandrasekhar's book on stellar structure

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

Ignorantly,
Allan Adler


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

Try

Burbidge, E. M., Burbidge, G. R., Fowler, W. A. & Hoyle, F., (1957) Rev.
Mod. Phys. 29, 547.


DaveL

"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_.

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"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