New answers tagged red-giant
3
votes
How to predict the radius of a Red giant
Further to the comment by astrosnapper, you might want to play around with EZ-Web (easier):
http://user.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/static.php?ref=ez-web
...or MESA-Web (more sophisticated):
http://user....
-1
votes
How to predict the radius of a Red giant
In general we calculate a Red Giant will have ten or more times the radius of the main sequence star (depending which scientists you want to believe) I don't think we have the math yet to work it out ...
Top 50 recent answers are included
Related Tags
red-giant × 56star × 23
the-sun × 15
stellar-evolution × 15
temperature × 4
white-dwarf × 4
main-sequence × 4
hr-diagram × 4
astrophysics × 3
supernova × 3
luminosity × 3
red-dwarf × 3
observational-astronomy × 2
earth × 2
orbital-elements × 2
stellar-astrophysics × 2
size × 2
habitable-zone × 2
stellar-dynamics × 2
johannes-kepler × 2
orbit × 1
planet × 1
telescope × 1
cosmology × 1
distances × 1