Stellar Evolution : The Life and Death of Our Luminous Neighbors
... e. they are all so far away that the light hasn't reached us yet. 2. The nuclear reactions in a star's core remain under control so long as a. b. c. d. ...
... e. they are all so far away that the light hasn't reached us yet. 2. The nuclear reactions in a star's core remain under control so long as a. b. c. d. ...
R and FUV Observations of Star Formation in
... Heating reduces the amount of cooling gas, but some gas does still manage to cool and form stars. Depending on assumptions, this could provide a few percent of the BCG stellar mass. So heating does not dominate everywhere all the time, though on average heating needs to dominate to keep the star for ...
... Heating reduces the amount of cooling gas, but some gas does still manage to cool and form stars. Depending on assumptions, this could provide a few percent of the BCG stellar mass. So heating does not dominate everywhere all the time, though on average heating needs to dominate to keep the star for ...
Chapter 18 - Stars - University of New Mexico
... GMint Mint V G R If almost all mass within 12 kpc, then for the few stars and gas clouds beyond 12 kpc, M int const., and thus: ...
... GMint Mint V G R If almost all mass within 12 kpc, then for the few stars and gas clouds beyond 12 kpc, M int const., and thus: ...
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[WC 6] nucleus with other emission-lines nuclei of planetary nebulae
... extended PN with very hot nuclei belonging to the wels class (A 30, A 58, A 78) should also confirm the second scenario of a late helium flash. Comparison in the IRAS colour-colour diagram of the [WC] and the wels CSPN is shown on Fig. 8. A clear separation appears between [WC] and wels, the latter ...
... extended PN with very hot nuclei belonging to the wels class (A 30, A 58, A 78) should also confirm the second scenario of a late helium flash. Comparison in the IRAS colour-colour diagram of the [WC] and the wels CSPN is shown on Fig. 8. A clear separation appears between [WC] and wels, the latter ...
Hubble Does Double-Duty Science: Finding Planets and
... solar flare behavior. Based on the star’s brightness, we saw modest flares in the brighter stars (flares increase of 10% or less in the star’s brightness) and larger flares in the fainter stars. A surprising fraction (85%) of flaring stars showed underlying variations, despite being a small componen ...
... solar flare behavior. Based on the star’s brightness, we saw modest flares in the brighter stars (flares increase of 10% or less in the star’s brightness) and larger flares in the fainter stars. A surprising fraction (85%) of flaring stars showed underlying variations, despite being a small componen ...
Chapter 17 Star Stuff
... 30 million years to go from protostar to main sequence • Higher-mass stars form faster • Lower-mass stars form more slowly ...
... 30 million years to go from protostar to main sequence • Higher-mass stars form faster • Lower-mass stars form more slowly ...
Stellar Populations For many modern applications, one is not
... Stellar Evolutionary Flux An interesting property associated with stellar populations is the stellar evolutionary flux, i.e., the number of stars passing through any (post main-sequence) phase of evolution at a given time. Just as the amount of water flowing down a river is controlled by the spillw ...
... Stellar Evolutionary Flux An interesting property associated with stellar populations is the stellar evolutionary flux, i.e., the number of stars passing through any (post main-sequence) phase of evolution at a given time. Just as the amount of water flowing down a river is controlled by the spillw ...
minnesota
... 2) Especially because of their reduced mass loss, low metallicity (very) massive stars have different properties when they die and possibly different nucleosynthesis. They are harder to explode, have more fall back, and rotate more rapidly. 3) Current surveys give good agreement with the abundances ...
... 2) Especially because of their reduced mass loss, low metallicity (very) massive stars have different properties when they die and possibly different nucleosynthesis. They are harder to explode, have more fall back, and rotate more rapidly. 3) Current surveys give good agreement with the abundances ...
Dark Stars: Dark Matter Annihilation in the First Stars.
... • DM heating disassociates molecular hydrogen, and then ionizes the gas • Our proto star has now become a star. – Initial star is a few solar masses – Accrete more baryons up to the Jeans Mass~1000M ...
... • DM heating disassociates molecular hydrogen, and then ionizes the gas • Our proto star has now become a star. – Initial star is a few solar masses – Accrete more baryons up to the Jeans Mass~1000M ...
Spectral classification of blue supergiants in M31
... few tens of solar masses. At the same time, they are enormously large with radii comparable to the Earth’s orbit. Because of those features they have been identified as very promising targets for stellar astronomy, enabling quantitative spectral analysis outside the Milky Way [4, 1]. This work adds ...
... few tens of solar masses. At the same time, they are enormously large with radii comparable to the Earth’s orbit. Because of those features they have been identified as very promising targets for stellar astronomy, enabling quantitative spectral analysis outside the Milky Way [4, 1]. This work adds ...
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... Stars can produce waves that resonate in their interiors. As a consequence, certain surface properties of stars – like brightness and velocity - can vary periodically in time. Just as in a musical instrument, the natural notes – or modes of oscillation – of a given star depend on the size and proper ...
... Stars can produce waves that resonate in their interiors. As a consequence, certain surface properties of stars – like brightness and velocity - can vary periodically in time. Just as in a musical instrument, the natural notes – or modes of oscillation – of a given star depend on the size and proper ...
HR DIAGRAM (Page 1) - McDonald Observatory
... cools down despite the increase in luminosity. The temperature of its core is actually hotter then when it was on the main sequence. Beyond this point, the star may continue its metamorphosis depending on its mass. Stars like our sun will blow off its outer layers while its core shrinks into a exoti ...
... cools down despite the increase in luminosity. The temperature of its core is actually hotter then when it was on the main sequence. Beyond this point, the star may continue its metamorphosis depending on its mass. Stars like our sun will blow off its outer layers while its core shrinks into a exoti ...
STScI 2005
... • Stars generally form with a frequency that decreases with increasing mass for masses greater than ~1 M: ...
... • Stars generally form with a frequency that decreases with increasing mass for masses greater than ~1 M: ...
Evolution of Population II Stars in the Helium
... Evolution of Population I stars with 15.6 M 0 4>, 5> and 4 M 0 6> in the heliumburning phase has been investigated taking into account the effect of helium depletion on the mean molecular weight and on the rate of helium burning. The results have shown that the stellar radius strongly depends not on ...
... Evolution of Population I stars with 15.6 M 0 4>, 5> and 4 M 0 6> in the heliumburning phase has been investigated taking into account the effect of helium depletion on the mean molecular weight and on the rate of helium burning. The results have shown that the stellar radius strongly depends not on ...
Mixing in massive stellar mergers
... an easy-to-use software package, which we have made publicly available for download.1 Key words: hydrodynamics – molecular processes – shock waves – methods: numerical – blue stragglers – stars: general. 1 INTRODUCTION The cores of star clusters can become so dense that close encounters and even col ...
... an easy-to-use software package, which we have made publicly available for download.1 Key words: hydrodynamics – molecular processes – shock waves – methods: numerical – blue stragglers – stars: general. 1 INTRODUCTION The cores of star clusters can become so dense that close encounters and even col ...
the chromospheres of classical cepheids. 111. a search for transition
... point during rising light, and the emission declines more or less steadily until the next cycle again excites it. At the phase of strongest emission, the flux is comparable to nonvariable stars of similar luminosity and temperature, but at other phases and averaged over the cycle the chromospheric a ...
... point during rising light, and the emission declines more or less steadily until the next cycle again excites it. At the phase of strongest emission, the flux is comparable to nonvariable stars of similar luminosity and temperature, but at other phases and averaged over the cycle the chromospheric a ...
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... thus, at a certain point, the newly forming object becomes visible. At this stage the large luminous body is called a protostar. The other half of its gravitational energy remains within the protostar as heat. As contraction continues, the internal temperature of the protostar keeps rising, and when ...
... thus, at a certain point, the newly forming object becomes visible. At this stage the large luminous body is called a protostar. The other half of its gravitational energy remains within the protostar as heat. As contraction continues, the internal temperature of the protostar keeps rising, and when ...
Numerical Evolu4on of Soliton Stars
... fields. These par.cles could clump together by a Jeans instability mechanism to form stars called soliton stars. • There are also scalar par.cles that can be described by complex scalar fields (also possible dark maPer candidates) that could form stars by the same mechanism. Such hypothe.cal st ...
... fields. These par.cles could clump together by a Jeans instability mechanism to form stars called soliton stars. • There are also scalar par.cles that can be described by complex scalar fields (also possible dark maPer candidates) that could form stars by the same mechanism. Such hypothe.cal st ...
Yes - Wichita State University
... 1. We obtain a new O/H gradient of -0.058 +/- .006 dex kpc-1. 2. A good linear model of the data requires the assumption of natural scatter. 3. Observed gradient range ~ -0.02 to -0.06 dex kpc-1. We are at the confusion limit. ...
... 1. We obtain a new O/H gradient of -0.058 +/- .006 dex kpc-1. 2. A good linear model of the data requires the assumption of natural scatter. 3. Observed gradient range ~ -0.02 to -0.06 dex kpc-1. We are at the confusion limit. ...
YREC: the Yale rotating stellar evolution code
... of the envelope (as determined by the local Schwarzschild criterion), the temperature gradient is evaluated according to the formalism of Stothers and Chin (1995), which is designed to describe superadiabatic convection. It is in this region that the peak of the highly superadiabatic transition laye ...
... of the envelope (as determined by the local Schwarzschild criterion), the temperature gradient is evaluated according to the formalism of Stothers and Chin (1995), which is designed to describe superadiabatic convection. It is in this region that the peak of the highly superadiabatic transition laye ...
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... Note that there are physical reasons why longlived stars have these properties: They are less luminous because they burn their fuel at a much lower rate than shortlived stars; they burn it at this lower rate because they are less massive (which means less compression and hence a lower fusion rate ...
... Note that there are physical reasons why longlived stars have these properties: They are less luminous because they burn their fuel at a much lower rate than shortlived stars; they burn it at this lower rate because they are less massive (which means less compression and hence a lower fusion rate ...
Stellar Continua
... temperature indicator • Varies smoothly with changing temperature • Slope is negative (blue is brighter) for hot stars and positive (visual is brighter) for cooler stars • B-V works as a temperature indicator from 3500K to 9000K (but depends on metallicity) • For hotter stars, neutral H and H- opaci ...
... temperature indicator • Varies smoothly with changing temperature • Slope is negative (blue is brighter) for hot stars and positive (visual is brighter) for cooler stars • B-V works as a temperature indicator from 3500K to 9000K (but depends on metallicity) • For hotter stars, neutral H and H- opaci ...
Globular Clusters - University of Dayton
... Turn Off - As the hydrogen fuel in a star's core runs out the core begins to collapse due to gravity and the star moves away from the main sequence. At the turn off nearly all the central fuel is gone. Red Giant Branch - When the central fuel is gone, hydrogen starts to burn in an envelope around a ...
... Turn Off - As the hydrogen fuel in a star's core runs out the core begins to collapse due to gravity and the star moves away from the main sequence. At the turn off nearly all the central fuel is gone. Red Giant Branch - When the central fuel is gone, hydrogen starts to burn in an envelope around a ...
Atypical thermonuclear supernovae from tidally crushed white dwarfs
... where n∗ is the star density in the star cluster nucleus and Mh,3 is the hole’s mass in units of 103 M . This fiducial capture rate may need to be modified for a number of reasons. The actual rate could be lower than that given by equation (4), even if the initial distribution were isotropic, if the ...
... where n∗ is the star density in the star cluster nucleus and Mh,3 is the hole’s mass in units of 103 M . This fiducial capture rate may need to be modified for a number of reasons. The actual rate could be lower than that given by equation (4), even if the initial distribution were isotropic, if the ...