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The role of the radiation pressure gradient in giant and supergiant star evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Wendee M. Brunish
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
Arthur N. Cox
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
Stephen A. Becker
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
Keith H. Despain
Affiliation:
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545

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Since some of the earliest evolutionary calculations it has been found that post main sequence stars become red giants (e.g. Sandage and Schwarzschild, 1952). However the exact physical processes that lead to and determine the rate of redward evolution are not completely understood.

Type
I. EVOLUTION OF LOW AND INTERMEDIATE MASS STARS OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1984 

References

Sandage, A. and Schwartzschild, M., 1952, Ap. J. 116, 463.CrossRefGoogle Scholar