Friday, 25 April 2014

stellar evolution - How is the age of a star on the Henyey track calculated?

I was reading Stellar Evolution in Early Phases of Gravitational Contraction, by Chushiro Henyey, where he writes,




If LproptoRalpha along the path, the age of a star from the time when R=infty is given by
t=C/(1alpha),C=GM2/RL=107.20left(fracMModotright)2fracRodotRfracLodotLtextyears


where R and L are the present values.




This seems to be just for stars on the Hayashi track (and treated here just for Population 1 stars). Is there a similar expression for stars on the Henyey track, or is the same expression valid in both scenarios?

No comments:

Post a Comment