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Stellar astrophysics

the driving of stellar pulsation by an ionization zone whose opacity rises on compression, trapping heat and pushing the layers outward each cycle.

In stellar astrophysics, kappa mechanism refers to the driving of stellar pulsation by an ionization zone whose opacity rises on compression, trapping heat and pushing the layers outward each cycle. This meaning comes from Zhevakin (1963) in Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics.[1]

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References

Zhevakin, S. A. (1963). Physical Basis of the Pulsation Theory of Variable Stars. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1(1), 367-400. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.aa.01.090163.002055

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