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On the consequences of mass loss from intermediate mass stars1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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There are two major effects of mass loss from stars of intermediate mass. First, the ultimate fate of such stars--whether they become supernovae of the type that leave no condensed remnant or whether they become white dwarfs--is extremely sensitive to the rate at which they lose mass during the last portion of their nuclear-burning lives. Second, the contribution of intermediate-mass stars to the enrichment of the interstellar medium in helium, carbon, nitrogen, s-process isotopes, and possibly also in iron-peak elements and r-process isotopes is similarly sensitive to mass-loss rates during this last, quiet phase of nuclear burning.
- Type
- Session VII - Mass Loss and Stellar Evolution: Intermediate Mass Stars
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 59: Effects of Mass Loss on Stellar Evolution , 1981 , pp. 373 - 387
- Copyright
- Copyright © Reidel 1981
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Supported in part by the United States National Science Foundation, grant AST 78-20124.