Questions tagged [metal]
Any element other than hydrogen and helium is considered a metal by astronomers.
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What is the reason for the dispute over the variation of core mass with heavy metal abundance?
In Metal-Poor Stars IV: The Evolution of Red Giants, Rood writes
The differences in the results of these papers are large enough to introduce appreciable uncertainties into the study of the ...
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What happens to the non-fusion formed metals in stars?
Let’s consider a population I star of some given metallicity.
I know that depending on the type of star, different structures are possible with convection zones and radiative zones trading around ...
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