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SUMMARY:Quasi-stars\, giants and the Schönberg-Chandrasekhar limit - Warr
 ick Ball (IoA)
DTSTART:20120215T134500Z
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CONTACT:Ryan Cooke
DESCRIPTION:The Schönberg-Chandrasekhar (SC) limit is a well-established 
 result in stellar evolution. I explain the SC limit in terms of contours o
 f constant fractional mass for polytropic envelopes in the plane of homolo
 gy invariant variables U and V. In the same way\, I explain the inner mass
  limit we previously found for quasi-stars: black holes embedded in and ac
 creting from hydrostatic\, giant-like envelopes. It also demonstrates that
  SC-like limits exist under a wide range of circumstances. One can test wh
 en a star is at a broader SC-like limit and I discuss possible consequence
 s for post-main-sequence stellar evolution.\n
LOCATION:Sackler Lecture Theatre\, IoA
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