Lecture 15: The Main Sequence - Astronomy 162

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What are the properties of stars on the Main Sequence? This lecture discusses what happens to a star after it alights onto the Main Sequence, burning H to He in its core, and maintaining a state of Hydrostatic and Thermal Equilibrium. We will see how the mass of a star determines its location along the Main Sequence and influences its energy generation and internal structure. We finally introduce the nuclear timescale and derive the Main-Sequence Lifetime for stars, and discuss its consequences. Recorded 2006 January 25 in 1008 Evans Laboratory on the Columbus campus of The Ohio State University.

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