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    The unqualified term instability strip usually refers to a region of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram largely occupied by several related classes of pulsating...
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    lie along a diagonal band in the H–R diagram called the S Doradus Instability Strip, with the more luminous examples having hotter temperatures. The standard...
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    on a section of the diagram called the instability strip. Cepheid variables also fall on the instability strip, at higher luminosities. The H-R diagram...
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    cross the instability strip during a blue loop are thought to become W Virginis variables. More massive stars, crossing the instability strip during a...
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    hypergiants occupy a region of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram above the instability strip, a region where relatively few stars are found and where those stars...
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    composition. A nearly vertical region of the HR diagram, known as the instability strip, is occupied by pulsating variable stars known as Cepheid variables...
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    cluster has no stars in this region of its CMD. The gap occurs at the instability strip, where many pulsating stars are found. These pulsating horizontal-branch...
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    wavelengths, causing it to appear red) evolution across the Cepheid instability strip, but it may be due to interference between the primary and the first-overtone...
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    unstable, leading to the instability strip on the HR diagram where the majority of stars are pulsating variables. The instability strip reaches from the main...
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  • dwarf binary system with a carbon-oxygen accretion disk. G 117-B15A Instability strip Stellar pulsation Koester & Chanmugam 1990, p. 891–895. Murdin, Paul...
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    region of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram known as the S Doradus instability strip, where the least luminous have a temperature around 10,000 K and a...
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    stars are the RV Tauri variables, AGB or post-AGB stars lying on the instability strip and showing distinctive semi-regular variations. Red supergiants develop...
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  • Planetary nebula Protoplanetary Wolf-Rayet nebula PG1159 Dredge-up OH/IR Instability strip Luminous blue variable Stellar population Supernova Superluminous...
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    luminosity over time due to instabilities within their interiors, but these are small except for two distinct instability regions where luminous blue...
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    can cause it to become a variable star. An example of this is the instability strip, a region of the H-R diagram that includes Delta Scuti, RR Lyrae and...
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    the instability strip and were originally referred to as dwarf Cepheids. RR Lyrae variables have short periods and lie on the instability strip where...
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    star (IMS) first evolves away from the main sequence, it crosses the instability strip very rapidly while the hydrogen shell is still burning. When the helium...
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    group consists of several kinds of pulsating stars, all found on the instability strip, that swell and shrink very regularly caused by the star's own mass...
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    more at luminosities of thousands of L☉. These stars will cross the instability strip more than once and pulsate as Type I (Classical) Cepheid variables...
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  • known periods range between 5 and 23 minutes. They lie in the δ Scuti instability strip on the main sequence. The first roAp star to be discovered was HD...
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    types of variables amongst the supergiants are well defined. The instability strip crosses the region of supergiants, and specifically many yellow supergiants...
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    yellow supergiants are in a region of the HR diagram known as the instability strip because their temperatures and luminosities cause them to be dynamically...
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    massive than the sun cross the Cepheid instability strip, called the first crossing since they may cross the strip again later on a blue loop. In the 2...
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    Planetary nebula Protoplanetary Wolf-Rayet nebula PG1159 Dredge-up OH/IR Instability strip Luminous blue variable Stellar population Supernova Superluminous...
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    temperatures, some becoming unstable pulsating stars in the yellow instability strip (RR Lyrae variables), whereas some become even hotter and can form...
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    Raymond E.; Alexander, Gareth P.; Moffatt, H. Keith (2015). "Instability of a Möbius strip minimal surface and a link with systolic geometry" (PDF). Physical...
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    Planetary nebula Protoplanetary Wolf-Rayet nebula PG1159 Dredge-up OH/IR Instability strip Luminous blue variable Stellar population Supernova Superluminous...
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    Planetary nebula Protoplanetary Wolf-Rayet nebula PG1159 Dredge-up OH/IR Instability strip Luminous blue variable Stellar population Supernova Superluminous...
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  • Planetary nebula Protoplanetary Wolf-Rayet nebula PG1159 Dredge-up OH/IR Instability strip Luminous blue variable Stellar population Supernova Superluminous...
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    Upper portion of H-R Diagram showing the location of the S Doradus instability strip and the location of LBV outbursts. Main sequence is the thin sloping...
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