SSC/Structure/BiPolytropes/Analytic51/Pt2
BiPolytrope with nc = 5 and ne = 1 (Pt 2)[edit]
Part I: (nc,ne) = (5,1) BiPolytrope
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Part II: Example Models
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Part III: Limiting Mass
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Part IV: Free Energy
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Examples[edit]
Normalization[edit]
The dimensionless variables used in Tables 1 & 2 are defined as follows:
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Parameter Values[edit]
The column of Table 1 catalogues the analytic expressions that define various parameters and physical properties (as identified, respectively, in column 1) of the bipolytrope. We have evaluated these expressions for various choices of the dimensionless interface radius, , and have tabulated the results in the last few columns of the table. The tabulated values have been derived assuming , that is, assuming that the core and the envelope have the same mean molecular weights.
Table 1: Properties of BiPolytrope Having Various Interface Locations,
Accompanying spreadsheet with parameter values
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0.5 |
1.0 |
1.66864602† |
3.0 |
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0.96077 |
0.86603 |
0.72016538 |
0.50000 |
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0.14781 |
0.21651 |
0.20774935 |
0.12500 |
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0.34549 |
0.69099 |
1.15301487 |
2.07297 |
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0.81864 |
0.48714 |
0.19371408 |
0.03125 |
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0.78653 |
0.42188 |
0.13950617 |
0.01563 |
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5.76461 |
5.19615 |
4.32099225 |
3.00000 |
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0.15320 |
0.89762 |
2.39822567 |
4.66417 |
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0.79941 |
1.29904 |
1.49895749 |
1.29904 |
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0.28868 |
0.57735 |
0.96339323 |
1.73205 |
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0.96225 |
0.19245 |
- 0.2962629 |
-0.96225 |
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1.10940 |
1.32288 |
1.56335712 |
1.80278 |
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- 0.00523 |
-0.08163 |
-0.359863583 |
-1.03792 |
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3.13637 |
3.05996 |
2.781729071 |
2.10367 |
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0.35372 |
0.43232 |
0.562009126 |
0.85697 |
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1.35550 |
1.62766 |
2.139737125 |
3.35697 |
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2.88959 |
3.72945 |
4.818155932 |
6.05187 |
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3.61035 |
4.84326 |
8.517046605 |
26.1844 |
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0.05302 |
0.24068 |
0.497747627 |
0.77070 |
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0.25488 |
0.42453 |
0.538858190 |
0.61751 |
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†This choice of the value of is motivated by our discussion of the fundamental mode of oscillation of the marginally unstable model that has ; see especially row 1 of Table 2 in that associated chapter. | |||||||
Alternatively, if given and the value of the parameter, , then we have,
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It must be understood, therefore, that the interface location is restricted to the range,
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and that this upper limit on is associated with a model whose core radius is, . Also,
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Profile[edit]
Once the values of the key set of parameters have been determined as illustrated in Table 1, the radial profile of various physical variables can be determined throughout the bipolytrope as detailed in step #4 and step #8, above. Table 2 summarizes the mathematical expressions that define the profile throughout the core (column 2) and throughout the envelope (column 3) of the normalized mass density, , the normalized gas pressure, , and the normalized mass interior to , . For all profiles, the relevant normalized radial coordinate is , as defined in the row of Table 2. Graphical illustrations of these resulting profiles can be viewed by clicking on the thumbnail images posted in the last few columns of Table 2.
Table 2: Radial Profile of Various Physical Variables
[As of 28 April 2013] For the interface locations , Table 2 provides profiles for three values of the molecular weight ratio: . In all nine graphs, blue diamonds trace the structure of the core; the core extends to a radius, , that is independent of molecular weight ratio but varies in direct proportion to the choice of . Specifically, as tabulated in the fourth row of Table 1, for, respectively, . Notice that, while the pressure profile and mass profile are continuous at the interface for all choices of the molecular weight ratio, the density profile exhibits a discontinuous jump that is in direct proportion to the chosen value of .
Throughout the envelope, the profile of all physical variables varies with the choice of the molecular weight ratio. In the Table 2 graphs, red squares trace the envelope profile for ; green triangles trace the envelope profile for ; and purple crosses trace the envelope profile for . The surface of the bipolytropic configuration is defined by the (normalized) radius, , at which the envelope density and pressure drop to zero; the values tabulated in row 16 of Table 1 — for, respectively, — correspond to a molecular weight ratio of unity and, hence also, to the envelope profiles traced by red squares in the Table 2 graphs. As the molecular weight ratio is decreased from unity to and, then, for a given choice of , the (normalized) radius of the bipolytrope increases roughly in inverse proportion to as suggested by the formula for shown in Table 1. This proportional relation is not exact, however, because the parameter , which also appears in the formula for , contains an implicit dependence on the chosen value of the molecular weight ratio through the parameter .
For a given choice of the interface parameter, , the (normalized) mass that is contained in the core is independent of the choice of the molecular weight ratio. However, the (normalized) total mass, , varies significantly with the choice of ; as suggested by the expression provided in row 17 of Table 1, the variation is in rough proportion to but, as with , this proportional relation is not exact because the parameters and which also appear in the formula for harbor an implicit dependence on the molecular weight ratio.
Model Sequences[edit]
For a given choice of a physically relevant sequence of models can be constructed by steadily increasing the value of from zero to infinity — or at least to some value, . Figure 1 shows how the fractional core mass, , varies with the fractional core radius, , along sequences having six different values of , as detailed in the figure caption. The natural expectation is that an increase in along a given sequence will correspond to an increase in the relative size — both the radius and the mass — of the core. This expectation is realized along the sequences marked by blue diamonds () and by red squares (½). But the behavior is different along the other four illustrated sequences. For sufficiently large , the relative radius of the core begins to decrease; then, as is pushed to even larger values, eventually the relative core mass begins to decrease. Additional properties of these equilibrium sequences are discussed in an accompanying chapter.
The variation of with for a seventh analytically determined model sequence — one for which — is mapped out by a string of blue diamond symbols in the left-hand side of Figure 2. It behaves in an analogous fashion to the ¼ (purple asterisks) sequence displayed in Figure 1. It also quantitatively, as well as qualitatively, resembles the sequence that was numerically constructed by 📚 M. Schönberg & S. Chandrasekhar (1942, ApJ, Vol. 96, pp. 161 - 172) for models with an isothermal core () and an envelope; Fig. 1 from their paper has been reproduced here on the right-hand side of Figure 2.
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Figure 2: Relationship to Schönberg-Chandrasekhar Mass Limit |
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Analytic BiPolytrope with , , and |
Edited excerpt from Schönberg & Chandrasekhar (1942) |
Figure from Henrich & Chandraskhar (1941) |
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(Above) Plot of fractional core mass () versus fractional core radius () for the analytic bipolytrope having . The behavior of this analytically defined model sequence resembles the behavior of the numerically constructed isothermal core models presented by (center) 📚 Schönberg & Chandrasekhar (1942) and by (far right) 📚 L. R. Henrich & S. Chandrasekhar (1941, ApJ, Vol. 94, pp. 525 - 536). |
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Related Discussions[edit]
- Polytropes emdeded in an external medium
- Constructing BiPolytropes
- Bonnor-Ebert spheres
- Bonnor-Ebert Mass according to Wikipedia
- Link has disappeared: A MATLAB script to determine the Bonnor-Ebert Mass coefficient developed by Che-Yu Chen as a graduate student in the University of Maryland Department of Astronomy
- Schönberg-Chandrasekhar limiting mass
- Relationship between Bonnor-Ebert and Schönberg-Chandrasekhar limiting masses
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