Ep. 109: The Life of Other Stars

Last week we looked at the complete life of the Sun, birth to death. But stars can be smaller, and stars can get much much larger. And with a change in mass, their lives change too. Let's start the clock again, and see what happens to the smallest stars in the Universe; and what happens to the largest.

Ep. 109: The Life of Other Stars

• Life cycles of different stars — from Sea and Sky
• Radiative Zone- from U of Michigan
• Radiative Transport – from the Astrophysics Spectator
• and Convective Transport –from A. S.
• Convective Transport — from University of Oregon
• White Dwarf stars — from Imagine the Universe
• White Dwarfs Rocket Away When They Are Born – from Universe Today
• Browns Dwarfs — from Berkeley
• Brown Dwarf or Big Jupiter? from Bad Astronomy
• Degenerate gases — from Bakersfield College
• Helium Flash — Imagine the Universe
• Post Main Sequence Evolution — from George Mason University
• Post Sequence Stars (neon, magnesium, oxygen and silicon burning) –from Australian Telescope Outreach
• Wolf Rayet Stars — from Harvard
• Instability of Compact Stars – from Astrophysics Spectator
• Binary Stars and Stellar Mass – from A.S.
• Binary and Multiple Star Systems — from SEDS
• Colliding White Dwarfs Could Create a Supergiant Star – from Universe Today
• Proton Proton Chains
• Beyond helium burning

Papers:

• Helium White Dwarf of Extremely Low Mass
• Formation of a Helium White Dwarf in Close Binary System
• Advanced Evolution of Massive Stars
• Mass Loss and Evolution of Hot Massive Stars
• Merged Binary White Dwarf Stars

1. Andrew James Says:
   October 15th, 2008 at 11:32 am

   These are all good references here.

   You might like to add the following very useful reference by Iben (1985) that explains much of what is in the podcast and what is referenced here. Although fairly old, it does explain a bit more of the evolution of solar-like stars. Figure 19 "Nature of Compact Remnants" on the types of white dwarfs by composition is particularly useful.

   The reference is;
   Iben, I. Jr., “Life and Times of an Intermediate Mass Stars- in Isolation/in a Close Binary.” QJRAS 26, 1-39 (1985)

   (After hearing this podcast, much of this can be read with only moderate knowledge of astronomy.)

   It is currently available through the ADS. I.e.
   Iben, I. Jr., “Life and Times of an Intermediate Mass Stars- in Isolation/in a Close Binary.” QJRAS 26, 1-39 (1985)

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