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Apr 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999mnras.305..365s&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 305, Issue 2, pp. 365-372.
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Instabilities, Stars: Oscillations, Stars: Variables: Other
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Why do stars and planets maintain their dynamical stability over cosmically long periods of time? The standard answer is that the first generalized adiabatic exponent of their material, Gamma_1, exceeds the value 4/3. Yet it has never been rigorously demonstrated (except for the simple one-zone model) that non-adiabatic effects do not modify this result at some level. Many authors, in fact, have suggested the probable need for a non-adiabatic correction to the square of the radial adiabatic eigenfrequency, sigma^2, which ostensibly governs dynamical stability in the more general case where Gamma_1 varies throughout a fully distributed self-gravitating spherical body. Here, a carefully controlled series of numerical experiments based on linear and non-linear hydrodynamical models of highly non-adiabatic spherically symmetric stellar envelopes (mimicking the envelopes of luminous blue variables) confirms, quite generally, that the purely adiabatic criterion sigma^2>0 does in fact determine dynamical stability. An accurate approximation to this criterion is further shown to be that the volumetric pressure-weighted average of Gamma_1 must exceed 4/3. These results, which concern only radial stability, verify the theoretical basis of the more sophisticated models for luminous blue variables that were constructed by the author and C.-w. Chin, but they do not support the objections to these models raised by W. Glatzel and M. Kiriakidis.
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