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Physical Processes in Red Giants - Proceedings of the Second Workshop, Held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Advanced School of Astronomy, in Erice, Sicily, Italy, September 3-13, 1980 (Hardcover, 1981 ed.)
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Physical Processes in Red Giants - Proceedings of the Second Workshop, Held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Advanced School of Astronomy, in Erice, Sicily, Italy, September 3-13, 1980 (Hardcover, 1981 ed.)
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 88
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In recent years, it has become clear that the red-giant phase is
one of the most dramatic periods in a star's life, when all of its
parts become involved in ways that have both direct and indirect
observational consequences. This is most particularly true of low-
and intermediate mass stars during the second ascent of the giant
branch. Such stars bring to their surfaces products of
nucleosynthesis currently taking place in their deep interiors,
they pulsate as Mira variables, develop extended outward-flowing
atmospheres that may exhibit maser properties, and shed great
quantities of matter, sometimes highly processed, into the inter
stellar medium. The manner in which processed matter is brought to
the surface is far from being completely explained, and the precise
mechanism or mechanisms whereby matter is ejected from the stellar
surface (whether by deposition of Alfven waves, radiation pressure
on grains, or as a consequence of so me large scale envelope
instability) has yet to be elucidated to every one's satisfaction.
The purpose of the second workshop in Astrophysics, organized by
the "Advanced School of Astronomy," was to bring together experts
on all the physical processes occurring in red giants in an effort
to emphasize the interrelatedness of these individual processes,
and to encourage a dia logue among experts that might serve to
initiate a synthesis, or at least sharpen our understanding of the
most important problems to address in the future."
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