Editing SSC/Stability/BiPolytropes/PlannedApproach (section)

==Overview==
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[[File:MassVsRadiusCombined02.png|300px|Equilibrium sequences of Pressure-Truncated Polytropes]]
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  <th align="center">[[File:DataFileButton02.png|right|60px|file = Dropbox/WorkFolder/Wiki edits/EmbeddedPolytropes/CombinedSequences.xlsx --- worksheet = EqSeqCombined2]]Figure 1: &nbsp;Equilibrium Sequences<br />of Pressure-Truncated Polytropes
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[[File:DFBsequenceB.png|300px|Equilibrium sequences of Pressure-Truncated Polytropes]]
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We expect the  content of this chapter &#8212; which examines the relative stability of bipolytropes &#8212; to parallel in many ways the content of an [[SSC/Stability/InstabilityOnsetOverview#Marginally_Unstable_Pressure-Truncated_Gas_Clouds|accompanying chapter in which we have successfully analyzed the relative stability of pressure-truncated polytopes]].  Figure 1, shown here on the right, has been copied from [[SSC/Structure/PolytropesEmbedded#Additional.2C_Numerically_Constructed_Polytropic_Configurations|a closely related discussion]].  The curves show the mass-radius relationship for pressure-truncated model sequences having a variety of polytropic indexes, as labeled, over the range <math>1 \le n \le 6</math>.  ([[SSC/Stability/InstabilityOnsetOverview#Turning_Points_along_Sequences_of_Pressure-Truncated_Polytropes|Another version of this figure]] includes the isothermal sequence.)  On each sequence for which <math>n \ge 3</math>, the green filled circle identifies the model with the largest mass.  We have shown ''analytically'' that the oscillation frequency of the fundamental-mode of radial oscillation is precisely zero<sup>&dagger;</sup> for each one of these maximum-mass models.  As a consequence, we know that each green circular marker identifies the point along its associated sequence that separates dynamically stable (larger radii) from dynamically unstable (smaller radii) models.

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<sup>&dagger;</sup>In each case, the fundamental-mode oscillation frequency is precisely zero if, and only if, the adiabatic index governing expansions/contractions is related to the underlying ''structural'' polytropic index via the relation, <math>\gamma_g = (n + 1)/n</math>, and if a constant surface-pressure boundary condition is imposed.

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In another [[SSC/Structure/BiPolytropes/Analytic51#BiPolytrope_with_nc_.3D_5_and_ne_.3D_1|accompanying chapter]], we have used purely analytic techniques to construct equilibrium sequences of spherically symmetric bipolytropes that have, <math>(n_c,n_e) = (5,1)</math>.   For a given choice of <math>~\mu_e/\mu_c</math> &#8212; the ratio of the mean-molecular weight of envelope material to the mean-molecular weight of material in the core &#8212; a physically relevant sequence of models can be constructed by steadily increasing the value of the dimensionless radius at the core/envelope interface, <math>\xi_i</math>, from zero to infinity.  Figure 2, whose content is essentially the same as [[SSC/Structure/BiPolytropes/Analytic51#Model_Sequences|Figure 1 of this separate chapter]], shows how the fractional core mass, <math>\nu \equiv M_\mathrm{core}/M_\mathrm{tot}</math>, varies with the fractional core radius, <math>q \equiv r_\mathrm{core}/R</math>, along sequences having seven different values of <math>\mu_e/\mu_c</math>, as labeled: 1 (black), &frac12; (dark blue), 0.345 (brown), &#8531; (dark green), 0.316943 (purple), 0.309 (orange),  and &frac14; (light blue).  

When modeling bipolytropes, the default expectation is that an increase in <math>\xi_i</math> along a given sequence will correspond to an increase in the relative size &#8212; both the radius and the mass &#8212; of the core. This expectation is realized along the Figure 2 sequences that have the largest mean-molecular weight ratios:  <math>\mu_e/\mu_c</math> = 1 and &frac12;.  But the behavior is different along the other five illustrated sequences.  For sufficiently large <math>\xi_i</math>, the relative radius of the core begins to decrease; along each sequence, a solid purple circular marker identifies the location of this ''turning point'' in radius.  Furthermore, along sequences for which <math>\mu_e/\mu_c < \tfrac{1}{3}</math>, eventually the fractional mass of the core reaches a maximum and, thereafter, decreases even as the value of <math>\xi_i</math> continues to increase; a solid green circular marker identifies the location of this ''maximum mass turning point'' along each of these sequences.  (Additional properties of these equilibrium sequences are discussed in [[SSC/FreeEnergy/PolytropesEmbedded#Behavior_of_Equilibrium_Sequence|yet another accompanying chapter]].)  

<font color="red">'''The principal question is:'''</font>  ''Along bipolytropic sequences, are maximum-mass models associated with the onset of dynamical instabilities?''