The Structure of Stars of Very Low Mass.
Abstract
Completely convective models have been constructed for stars of masses 009, 008, 007, 006, 005, and 0 04 (solar units),taking into account the non-relativistic degeneracy of the stellar material. It is shown that there is a lower limit to the mass of a main-sequence star. The stars with mass less than this limit \)ecome completely degenerate stars or "black" dwarfs as a consequence of gravitational contracti9n, and, therefore, they never go through the normal stellar evolution.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- May 1963
- DOI:
- 10.1086/147589
- Bibcode:
- 1963ApJ...137.1121K