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Non-variable horizontal-branch stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Robert T. Rood*
Affiliation:
University of Virginia

Abstract

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For 25 years our ignorance of the physical basis of this mass loss process has been the barrier to progress in understanding horizontal branch morphology. I review some recent observational and theoretical results which may be giving us clues about the nature of the mass loss process.

Type
Evolved Stars
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997 

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