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Title:
Red Dwarfs and the End of the Main Sequence
Authors:
Adams, F. C.; Graves, G. J. M.; Laughlin, G.
Affiliation:
AA(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA)
Publication:
Gravitational Collapse: From Massive Stars to Planets. / First Astrophysics meeting of the Observatorio Astronomico Nacional. / A meeting to celebrate Peter Bodenheimer for his outstanding contributions to Astrophysics. (Eds. G. García-Segura, G. Tenorio-Tagle, J. Franco, & H. W. Yorke) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 22, pp. 46-49 (2004) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/) (RMxAC Homepage)
Publication Date:
12/2004
Origin:
RMXAA
Keywords:
stars: late-type, stars: low mass, brown dwarfs
Bibliographic Code:
2004RMxAC..22...46A

Abstract

This paper celebrates the contributions of Peter Bodenheimer to our understanding of stellar evolution by focusing on the long term development of red dwarf stars. We show that these diminutive stellar objects remain convective over most of their lives, they continue to burn hydrogen for trillions of years, and they do not experience red giant phases in their old age. Instead, red dwarfs turn into blue dwarfs and finally white dwarfs. This work shows (in part) why larger stars do become red giants.
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