"Disentangling these two scenarios for producing Type Ic supernovas impacts our understanding of
stellar evolution and star formation, including how the masses of stars are distributed when they are born, and how many stars form in interacting binary systems," explained Ori Fox of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, a member of Van Dyk's team.
The first is delivered Sagan-style: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." Only in this case, it's not apple pie but neutron stars that we want to understand, and for that we delve into a chapter-long overview of
stellar evolution.
Scientists said on Tuesday that this 'extremely rare and interesting' star can help solve the mysteries of
stellar evolution and the origin of lithium in our home galaxy.
The 97 oral presentations and 53 poster papers in this collection cover white dwarf samples, surveys, and luminosity functions; SN Ia connection; white dwarfs with planetary systems; atmospheres: composition and evolution; pulsating and variable white dwarfs; structure,
stellar evolution, and fundamental physics; and white dwarfs in binaries, cataclysmic variables.
It is now appearing high in the sky after it gets dark as a fuzzy patch of stars, allowing you to view the process of
stellar evolution with your own eyes.
It still is on the hydrogen-burning main sequence of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of
stellar evolution. However, the sun will die eventually; little stars like the sun usually live for about 10,000,000,000 years.
The only doctoral astrophysics student at the American University of Beirut, Halabi finished her college degree in mathematics and physics before doing a master's program in astrophysics, and is now almost done with her thesis on
stellar evolution.
Astrophysicist Thomas Tauris from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and the Argelander Institute for Astronomy in Bonn jointly with Ed van den Heuvel through theoretical calculations and stability analysis on the base of
stellar evolution, demonstrated a plausible theoretical model which brings new insight to knowledge of stellar interactions in multiple star systems.
The 50 papers presented during the April 2012 conference report findings from spectroscopic surveys and share recent research on solar physics,
stellar evolution, plasma astrophysics, high energy astrophysics, stellar cluster and galaxy evolution, instrumentation, and education.