Main Sequence to Red Giant to Planetary Nebula (Part 2)
Foundation
In an accompanying discussion, we derived the so-called,
Adiabatic Wave (or Radial Pulsation) Equation
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whose solution gives eigenfunctions that describe various radial modes of oscillation in spherically symmetric, self-gravitating fluid configurations.
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We note as well that,
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Hence,
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Now,
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Multiplying this LAWE through by and recognizing that,
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we have,
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In shorthand, we can rewrite this equation in the form,
where,
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Drawing from our "Table 2" profiles,
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