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Revision as of 00:58, 16 January 2024
BiPolytrope with nc = 5 and ne = 1 (Pt 1)
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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Here we construct a bipolytrope in which the core has an polytropic index and the envelope has an polytropic index. This system is particularly interesting because the entire structure can be described by closed-form, analytic expressions. In deriving the properties of this model, we will follow the general solution steps for constructing a bipolytrope that we have outlined elsewhere.
Steps 2 & 3
Based on the discussion presented elsewhere of the structure of an isolated polytrope, the core of this bipolytrope will have the following properties:
The first zero of the function and, hence, the surface of the corresponding isolated polytrope is located at . Hence, the interface between the core and the envelope can be positioned anywhere within the range, .
Step 4: Throughout the core (0 ≤ ξ ≤ ξi)
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Equations (A2) from 📚 P. P. Eggleton, J. Faulkner, & R. C. Cannon (1998, MNRAS, Vol. 298, issue 3, pp. 831 - 834) — hereafter, EFC98 — present the same relations but adopt the following notations:*
Hence, which matches our expression for the core's polytrope function, . Now, look at the EFC98 expression for the core's integrated mass. This expression matches ours. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Step 5: Interface Conditions
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Step 6: Envelope Solution
Adopting equation (8) of 📚 M. Beech (1988, Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 147, issue 2, pp. 219 - 227), the most general solution to the Lane-Emden equation can be written in the form,
where and are constants. The first derivative of this function is,
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Equations (A2) from 📚 Eggleton, Faulkner, & Cannon (1998) present the same relations but adopt the following notations:* |
From Step 5, above, we know the value of the function, and its first derivative at the interface; specifically,
From this information we can determine the constants and ; specifically,
where,
Step 7
The surface will be defined by the location, , at which the function first goes to zero, that is,
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Equations (A2) from 📚 Eggleton, Faulkner, & Cannon (1998) present the same relations but adopt the following notations:* |
Step 8: Throughout the envelope (ηi ≤ η ≤ ηs)
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An examination of their equations (A3) reveals that EFC98 continue to use to represent the polytropic function throughout the envelope — for clarity, we will attach the subscript — whereas we use . Henceforth we will assume that these functions are interchangeable, that is, , and examine whether or not their various physical parameter expressions match ours.
where, in both expressions, we have replaced their label for the value of the polytropic function at the core-envelope interface, , with our label, . Both of their expressions match ours EXCEPT … NOTE: in both of their expressions, is raised to the 4th power whereas, according to our derivation, this interface value should be raised to the 6th power in the expression for pressure and it should be raised to the 5th power in the expression for the density. We are confident that our expressions are the correct ones and therefore presume that type-setting errors are present in both of the EFC98 expressions. We state that the envelope's polytropic function has the form, where,
EFC98 state that, where,
We therefore conclude that , and . If, as we assume to be the case, , it must also be the case that,
Our expression for the integrated mass throughout the envelope is,
According to EFC98,
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Related Discussions
- 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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