Sliding along the Eddington Limit—Heavy-Weight Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae

Due to thermal pulses, asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars experience periods of convective mixing that provide ideal conditions for slow neutron-capture nucleosynthesis. These processes are affected by large uncertainties and are still not fully understood. By the lucky coincidence that about a qua...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lisa Löbling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-06-01
Series:Galaxies
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/6/2/65