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Chapter 13
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Undergraduate 1
04/21/2008

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Electron Degeneracy
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that wich stops white dwarf from collapsing any further

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White dwarf
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.1 to 1.4 solar masses--sun ends up this way 10,000 miles across

Size of Earth

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White dwarf limit
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.1 to 1.4
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Accretion disk
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material falling in 10% energy production
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Nova
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binary star explosion--periodic
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White dwarf supernova
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binary stars collapse on each other--type I
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Massive star Supernova explosion
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type II one large star explosion
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Neutron stars
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1.4 to 6 solar masses--10mile collapsed core of neutrons
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Neutron dgeneracy
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stops further collapse
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Pulsars
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rotating neutron star
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Black hole
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light cannot escape--6 solar masses and above
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Schwarz child radius
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the size of black holes event horizon
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Event horizon
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once you cross you cannot return
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Singularity
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mass but no size
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Gamma ray bursts
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matter falling in to black holes giving large explosions of gammas
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