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In the stars
… of life define our realities. It uses the stars, moon and sky as a tool to explore these differences by counterpoising the two main characters as having different views of the same subject. Thus Gabriel is an astronomer with a rational scientific approach to the universe while Lena, though …
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The STARS Evolution Suitcase
The file named "beachcorbyn.pdf" is the primary dissertation file. Supplemental files ("*.pdf") are also available and may be viewed individually.
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Polygons, stars, and clusters
One technique for displaying a set of quantitative variables is to represent the set as a polygon. Such displays allow the observer to visualize complex information quickly, as a whole. Polygon displays have been employed to display information for analysis, status, or presentation. An experimental …
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The Weight of the Stars
The Weight of the Stars is a foray into the genre of epic fantasy. Based on observations of both classic and contemporary fantasy, this novel is intended as a response to long-held traditions within the genre. The Weight of the Stars seeks to complicate those familiar tropes and reflect a more …
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Carbon stars and silicon carbide
Stars between about 0.8 and 8 times the mass of the Sun will eventually evolve become asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, where they pulsate and throw off mass from their atmospheres, forming dust shells in the space around them. AGB stars between about 2 to 4 solar masses can develop atmospheres …
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White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars
Submitted by Jesse Garrison (jagarris@illinois.edu) on 2011-07-06T20:18:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 1972_sutherland.pdf: 5521266 bytes, checksum: edbe7909c32b744c3af18c47a5e720c8 (MD5)
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Galactic Structure with Giant Stars
The content of this thesis derives from three projects conducted during my Ph.D, focusing on both the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. I deploy long period variables, especially Miras, as chronometers to study the evolution of Galactic structure over stellar age. I study red giants in the …
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Music, Politics and Liquid Modernity : How Rock-stars Became Politicians and Why Politicians Became Rock-stars.
… mode of seduction of Western youth, rock-stars erupted through the counter-culture as potent political figures. Following its sensational arrival, the politics of popular musical culture has however moved from the shared experience of protest movements and picket lines and to an …
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Evolved stars in galactic plane surveys
Contains fulltext : 115711.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Massive stars in low metallicity environments
The evolution of massive stars has been a key field of research for many decades, as it has significant effects on a variety of astrophysical disciplines. Nonetheless, it is still widely uncertain due to a deficit of observational evidence to verify theoretical models. Recent surveys of the galaxy …
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Flare stars in the solar vicinity
Young stars close to the sun (within 100 pc) yield an interesting sample in many respects: They are relatively bright and because of their close distance we can resolve the surroundings of these stars by using adaptive optics on 8 to 10 m class telescopes (e.g. VLT or Keck). In the K-band the …
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Angular Momentum Evolution of Young Stars
… behaviour of young pre-main sequence (PMS) stars in order to achieve a better understanding of their angular momentum evolution during this evolutionary stage. For that purpose I have carried out an extensive photometric monitoring program which enabled me to identify a total of 405 periodic …
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Neutrino Transport in Young Neutron Stars
In Part one of this thesis, I calculate the transport coefficients of degenerate neutrinos in dense matter taking into account both absorption and scattering of neutrinos by nucleons. Exact solutions of the transport equation are used, and the effect of neutron - proton interactions on the …
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Accretion by rotating magnetic neutron stars
… X-ray sources are rotating magnetic neutron stars undergoing accretion. The text of this thesis provides a historical introduction to four studies, contained herein as appendices, in which we develop a theory of accretion by such stars. In these studies, we first give a detailed …
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