Stellar structure#
Polytropic gas spheres, the Chandrasekhar mass limit, the mass-luminosity
relation, and the nuclear reactions that power a star, from
physicskit.astro.stellar_structure (and, for nucleosynthesis,
physicskit.particle.nuclear).
Lane-Emden polytropes: Lane, Ritter, and Emden’s gas spheres
Lane-Emden polytropes: Lane, Ritter, and Emden's gas spheres
Bethe’s pp-chain and CNO cycle: the energy source of stars
Bethe's pp-chain and CNO cycle: the energy source of stars