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List of works by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Achievements in astronomy

scientific article published on 01 January 1981

An interpretation of double periods in beta Canis Majoris stars

scientific article

Astronomers' petition

scientific article published on 01 March 1976

Dynamical Friction. I. General Considerations: the Coefficient of Dynamical Friction

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Dynamical Friction. II. The Rate of Escape of Stars from Clusters and the Evidence for the Operation of Dynamical Friction

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Dynamical Friction. III. a More Exact Theory of the Rate of Escape of Stars from Clusters

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Extinction in x-ray crystallography

Indian Immigration in America

ON COSMIC MAGNETIC FIELDS.

scientific article published in January 1957

ON COWLING'S THEOREM ON THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF SELF-MAINTAINED AXISYMMETRIC HOMOGENEOUS DYNAMOS.

scientific article published on March 1956

ON FORCE-FREE MAGNETIC FIELDS.

scientific article

ON THE DIFFUSE REFLECTION OF A PENCIL OF RADIATION BY A PLANE-PARALLEL ATMOSPHERE.

scientific article published on September 1958

ON THE EQUILIBRIUM CONFIGURATIONS OF AN INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID WITH AXISYMMETRIC MOTIONS AND MAGNETIC FIELDS.

scientific article published on September 1958

ON THE EXPANSION OF FUNCTIONS WHICH SATISFY FOUR BOUNDARY CONDITIONS.

scientific article published on June 1957

ON THE STABILITY OF THE SIMPLEST SOLUTION OF THE EQUATIONS OF HYDROMAGNETICS.

scientific article published on May 1956

On Characteristic Value Problems in High Order Differential Equations Which Arise in Studies on Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability

On stars, their evolution and their stability

scientific article published on 01 November 1984

On the Decay of Plane Shock Waves

report by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar at the Ballistics Research Laboratories

On the integral equation governing the distribution of the true and the apparent rotational velocities of stars

scientific article published in January 1950

On the occurrence of multiple frequencies and beats in the beta Canis Majoris stars

On the oscillations and the stability of rotating gaseous masses

On the stability of binary systems

scientific article published in January 1944

Polarization of the Sunlit Sky

scientific article published in Nature

Polytropic distributions

doctoral dissertation by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Problems of Gravitational Stability in the Presence of a Magnetic Field

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Report

Science and scientific attitudes

scientific article published in Nature

Stochastic Problems in Physics and Astronomy

scientific article

THE EQUILIBRIUM OF MAGNETIC STARS

scientific article published on January 1956

THE GEODESICS IN GODEL'S UNIVERSE.

scientific article

THE HYDRODYNAMIC STABILITY OF INVISCID FLOW BETWEEN COAXIAL CYLINDERS

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THE HYDRODYNAMIC STABILITY OF VISCID FLOW BETWEEN COAXIAL CYLINDERS

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THE STABILITY OF NON-DISSIPATIVE COUETTE FLOW IN HYDROMAGNETICS

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THE VIRAL THEOREM IN GENERAL RELATIVITY IN THE POST-NEWTONIAN APPROXIMATION

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The Dynamical Instability of Gaseous Masses Approaching the Schwarzschild Limit in General Relativity

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Equilibrium and the Stability of the Roche Ellipsoids

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Highly Collapsed Configurations of a Stellar Mass

scientific article

The Highly Collapsed Configurations of a Stellar Mass. (Second Paper.)

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The Internal Constitution of the Stars

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The Maximum Mass of Ideal White Dwarfs

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Potentials and the Superpotentials of Homogeneous Ellipsoids

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Radiative Equilibrium of an Expanding Planetary Nebula. I. Radiation Pressure in LYMAN-α.

scientific article published in 1945

The Role of General Relativity in Astronomy: Retrospect and Prospect

scholarly article published 1980

The equilibrium of distorted polytropes. I. The rotational problem

scientific article published in January 1933

The equilibrium of distorted polytropes. IV. the rotational and the tidal distortions as functions of the density distribution

scientific article

The general theory of relativity: Why “It is probably the most beautiful of all existing theories”

The isothermal function

scientific article

The role of general relativity in astronomy: Retrospect and prospect

scholarly article by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar published September 1980 in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy

The statistic of the gravitational field arising from a random distribution of stars. II. The speed of fluctuations

scientific article published in January 1943

To Victor Ambartsumian on his 80th birthday

XLVIII.The density of white dwarf stars

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