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An essay on stellar oscillations and evolution

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It is cautioned that solar models adjusted in such a way as to achieve a match between theoretical solar oscillation characteristics and observed ones may produce neutrino fluxes inconsistent with the observations and that this is likely to be explicable as a deficiency in modeling that portion of the envelope which is most strongly affected by uncertainties in the treatment of convection. Then follows a summary of how the results of pulsation theory and of stellar evolution theory have been used together to learn about the structure and evolution of RR Lyrae stars, classical Cepheids, and high luminosity AGB stars.

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  1. Dept. of Astronomy, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.

    Icko Iben Jr.

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Proceedings of the 66th IAU Colloquium: Problems in Solar and Stellar Oscillations, held at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, U.S.S.R., 1–5 September, 1981.

Supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant AST 81-15325.

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Iben, I. An essay on stellar oscillations and evolution. Sol Phys 82, 457–467 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00145587

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