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The Main Sequence Evolution of Inhomogeneous Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

J. Lattanzio
J. Lattanzio*
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Department of Mathematics, Monash University
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Duley (1974) has shown that, at the temperatures usually associated with interstellar gas clouds, we would expect CNO grains to be present. During gravitational collapse these grains migrate to the centre of the gas cloud, leading to an enhancement of the heavy-element abundance in the core (Prentice 1976, 1978). It was Krautschneider (1977) who verified such a scenario, by considering the dynamical collapse of gas and grain clouds. If such an initial radial abundance inhomogeneity existed, Prentice (1976a) showed that this configuration may well survive the later convective mixing phase and thus approach the zero-age main-sequence (ZAMS) with a small (-v 3% by mass) metal enhanced core.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , 1982 , pp. 396 - 400
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1982

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