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Convection in the Helium Flash

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2018

A. J. Wickett
A. J. Wickett*
Affiliation:
Department of Astrophysics and Nuclear Physics Laboratory, University of Oxford

Abstract

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The evolution of a star through the helium flash depends upon uncertain aspects of convection theory. Observations place some constraints on the theory of convection in stellar cores.

Type
VII. Special Topics
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 38: Problems of Stellar Convection , 1977 , pp. 284 - 289
Copyright
Copyright © 1976

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