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On the possibility of partial matter mixing in rotating massive stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Eugenij I. Staritsin*
Affiliation:
Astronomical observatory, Ural State University, pr. Lenina 51, Yekaterinburg, 620083 Russia

Abstract

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The principal role of strong horizontal diffusion in overcoming the inhibiting effect of mean molecular weight gradient and in producing partial matter mixing between convective core and radiative envelope of a rotating star, is shown.

Type
Part 2. Interiors of Massive Stars
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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