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What do you call a protostar with more than 10 solar masses?
PMS Stars with less than 3 solar masses are T Tauri stars, and PMS stars between 3 and 10 solar masses are herbig ae/be stars, so what do you call a star with more than 10 solar masses? Is there ...
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Hayashi Track vs Red Giant branch
Are the red Giant branch and the Hayashi track the same thing? After doing some research, I found some similarities between the two, such as both aree fully convective. However, the T Tauri phase does ...
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Freefall timescale for a Jeans-unstable hydrogen cloud of mass M
I'm working on a project (personal, not academic) that involves calculating the collapse timescales for protostars which will end up becoming stars of varying given masses. I'm treating the pre-main ...
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Is there enough hydrogen left after a star dies so another star will have enough to light up?
A star consumes quite a lot of hydrogen in its life, and is pretty much "vacuuming" everything in its vicinity. After it dies (eventually by supernova which will spread all its composition over light ...
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