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

Chandrasekhar’s white dwarf mass limit

Chandrasekhar's white dwarf mass limit

Eddington’s mass-luminosity relation

Eddington's mass-luminosity relation

Bethe’s pp-chain and CNO cycle: the energy source of stars

Bethe's pp-chain and CNO cycle: the energy source of stars