Degenerate remnants of stars (part I)

4 Maio 2020, 13:00 Israel Matute

End stages of stars include cores composed of degenerate matter.

Eq. of state for a degenerate gas:

  • electron degenerate pressure due to Pauli’s exclusion principle.

  • Polytrope models for the relativistic and non-relativistic cases.

Properties and classification of white dwarfs (WD).
The particular case of Sirius B.