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Classification of Stars

General Information

  • Star Temperature: D.E.Soper's page at the U of Oregon.
  • Color Index: St. Cloud State University page.
  • Spectral Types: Jim Kaler's lists of stars; Columbia Encyclopedia page; NASA GSFC page and mnemonics; Larry Adkins history page; Richard Pogge's page.
  • Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) Diagram: J Imamura (U of Oregon) page; D Soper (U of Oregon) page; H E Smith (UCSD) page; B Kellett (Rutherford Lab) page; UTK page.

Special Types of Stars (See also Binaries and Variable stars)

  • Main Sequence Stars: NASA Observatorium page.
  • Brown Dwarfs: Scientific American 2000 article; Harvard (Chandra) pages; UC Berkeley research group site; Bo Reipurth et al astro-ph/0110481 article.
  • Magnetars: University of Texas (R Duncan) page; magnetars.com site; NASA page.
  • Red Giants: Hotu.com page.
  • Supergiants: Cosmiverse reference page; HyperPhysics page from Georgia State.
  • White Dwarfs: Cosmiverse reference page; WhiteDwarf.org site (a non-profit organization dedicated to scientific research and public education); NASA Imagine page1 and page2.
  • Wolf-Rayet Stars: Harvard CfA page.

Books

  • J. Kaler, Extreme Stars: At the Edge of Creation, Cambridge University Press 2001.

Up to astronomy resources; Page by Luca Bombelli <bombelli"at"olemiss.edu>, Modified 30 dec 2005