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    Stellar structure models describe the internal structure of a star in detail and make predictions about the luminosity, the color and the future evolution...
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    various points in their lifetime, and by simulating stellar structure using computer models. Stellar evolution starts with the gravitational collapse of...
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    ISBN 1-891389-46-7. Prialnik, Dina (2000). An Introduction to the Theory of Stellar Structure and Evolution. Cambridge University Press. pp. 198–199. ISBN 0-521-65937-X...
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    significant contributions to the scientific knowledge about the structure of stars, stellar evolution and black holes. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize...
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    In astronomy, stellar kinematics is the observational study or measurement of the kinematics or motions of stars through space. Stellar kinematics encompasses...
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    the stellar winds and supernovae from recent previous star formation, leading to self-propagating and self-sustaining star formation. Spiral structure then...
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    within molecular clouds in interstellar space, sometimes referred to as "stellar nurseries" or "star-forming regions", collapse and form stars. As a branch...
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    Sun (redirect from Structure of the Sun)
    Hansen, C. J.; Kawaler, S. A.; Trimble, V. (2004). Stellar Interiors: Physical Principles, Structure, and Evolution (2nd ed.). Springer. pp. 19–20....
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    Main sequence (category Stellar evolution)
    the main sequence is a classification of stars which appear on plots of stellar color versus brightness as a continuous and distinctive band. Stars on...
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    stellar structure. A polytrope with index n = 5 has an infinite radius. It corresponds to the simplest plausible model of a self-consistent stellar system...
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    Milky Way (section Structure)
    S2CID 119327129. Benjamin, R. A.; et al. (2005). "First GLIMPSE results on the stellar structure of the Galaxy". The Astrophysical Journal. 630 (2): L149–L152....
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    1944, Walter Baade categorized groups of stars within the Milky Way into stellar populations. In the abstract of the article by Baade, he recognizes that...
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  • A stellar core is the extremely hot, dense region at the center of a star. For an ordinary main sequence star, the core region is the volume where the...
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  • luminosity of a star is then L = 4πR2σTeff4, where R is the stellar radius. The definition of the stellar radius is obviously not straightforward. More rigorously...
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    actual age of the cluster. Stellar birthline Kippenhahn, Rudolf; Weigert, Alfred; Weiss, Achim (2012), Stellar Structure and Evolution (2nd ed.), Springer...
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  • Hayashi limit (category Stellar evolution)
    layers of low temperature stars are always convective, and models of stellar structure for fully convective stars do not provide a solution to the right...
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    In astrophysics, stellar nucleosynthesis is the creation of chemical elements by nuclear fusion reactions within stars. Stellar nucleosynthesis has occurred...
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    Astrophysics (redirect from Stellar physics)
    formation and evolution; stellar dynamics and evolution; galaxy formation and evolution; magnetohydrodynamics; large-scale structure of matter in the universe;...
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    written in the same form as above; these are used in the theory of stellar structure: Γ 1 = ∂ ln ⁡ P ∂ ln ⁡ ρ | S , Γ 2 − 1 Γ 2 = ∂ ln ⁡ T ∂ ln ⁡ P | S...
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    This is a list of stellar streams. A stellar stream is an association of stars orbiting a galaxy. It was once a globular cluster or dwarf galaxy that has...
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    contributions in the field of stellar structure and evolution. First, he developed a method for automatic solution of the equations of stellar evolution, suitable...
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    (several thousand km/s) stellar wind from a single massive star of type O or B. Weaker stellar winds also blow bubble structures, which are also called...
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  • Standard solar model (category Stellar evolution)
    ionised plasma). This stellar model, technically the spherically symmetric quasi-static model of a star, has stellar structure described by several differential...
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    In astronomy, stellar classification is the classification of stars based on their spectral characteristics. Electromagnetic radiation from the star is...
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    Stars and stellar systems. Vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-521-56631-5. Pols, Onno Rudolf (2011). Stellar Structure and Evolution...
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    primarily hydrogen and helium, with trace amounts of "metals" (in stellar structure, this simply refers to any element that is not hydrogen or helium...
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    equations whose solutions give the frequency and structure of a star's modes of oscillation. The stellar structure is usually assumed to be spherically symmetric...
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  • before Schwarzschild. Schwarzschild's work in the fields of stellar structure and stellar evolution led to improved understanding of pulsating stars,...
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    fields ever since, including atmospheric science, oceanography and stellar structure. The mixing length is conceptually analogous to the concept of mean...
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    Horizontal branch (category Concepts in stellar astronomy)
    causes substantial changes in stellar structure, resulting in an overall reduction in luminosity, some contraction of the stellar envelope, and the surface...
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