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The Effect of Coulomb Interactions on the Helium Flash

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

A. Harpaz  and
A. Kovetz
A. Harpaz
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, The Technion, Haifa, andUniversity of Haifa, School of Education of the Kibbutz Movement, Oranim
A. Kovetz
Affiliation:
Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences andSchool of Physicsand Astronomy Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University

Abstract

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Detailed evolutionary calculations show that Coulomb interactions between the charged particles of a stellar plasma reduce the core mass at which a low mass red giant undergoes the helium flash (contrary to a recent claim). This has implications for the determination of the rate of mass loss from red giants.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 114: White Dwarfs , 1989 , pp. 81 - 84
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1989

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