Structure and Evolution of Low-Mass Stars: An Overview and Some Open Problems
Abstract
A review is presented of some of the ingredients, assumptions and techniques that are used in the computation of the structure and evolution of low-mass stars. Emphasis is placed on several ingredients which are still subject to considerable uncertainty. An overview of the evolution of low-mass stars is also presented, from the cloud collapse phase all the way to the white dwarf cooling curve.
- Publication:
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Graduate School in Astronomy: XI Special Courses at the National Observatory of Rio de Janeiro (XI CCE)
- Pub Date:
- September 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.2790333
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0703724
- Bibcode:
- 2007AIPC..930...39C
- Keywords:
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- 95.80.+p;
- 95.30.Tg;
- 97.10.Cv;
- Astronomical catalogs atlases sky surveys databases retrieval systems archives etc.;
- Thermodynamic processes conduction convection equations of state;
- Stellar structure interiors evolution nucleosynthesis ages;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 52 pages, 6 figures. Invited review, to appear in "XIth Special Courses at the National Observatory of Rio de Janeiro" (AIP Conf. Proc.), ed. J. Alcaniz, R. de la Reza, F. Roig, &