• A circumstellar envelope (CSE) is a part of a star that has a roughly spherical shape and is not gravitationally bound to the star core. Usually circumstellar...
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    molecules that have been detected in the interstellar medium and circumstellar envelopes, grouped by the number of component atoms. The chemical formula...
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    Majoris in the H band, ascribing the CP to multiple scattering in circumstellar envelopes. Chrysostomou et al. found CP with q of up to 0.17 in the Orion...
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    mass of the Sun (M☉). It is surrounded by a complex asymmetric circumstellar envelope (CSE) caused by its mass loss. It produces strong molecular maser...
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    loss of AGB stars means that they are surrounded by an extended circumstellar envelope (CSE). Given a mean AGB lifetime of one Myr and an outer velocity...
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    type of the star. The gas builds up in an expanding shell called a circumstellar envelope and cools as it moves away from the star, allowing dust particles...
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    A circumstellar disc (or circumstellar disk) is a torus, pancake or ring-shaped accretion disk of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids...
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    surrounding gas, and an ionization front propagates outward into the circumstellar envelope of neutral atoms. About 3000 planetary nebulae are now known to...
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    one extends out from the center; Betelgeuse is surrounded by a circumstellar envelope composed of matter ejected from the star—matter which absorbs and...
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    particularly massive stars, millisecond magnetars, interaction with circumstellar material (CSM model), or pair-instability supernovae. The first confirmed...
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    Cohen, R. J. (1999). "Maser mapping of small-scale structure in the circumstellar envelope of S Persei". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...
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    (NTTS), which is a subset of WTTS. Roughly half of T Tauri stars have circumstellar disks, which in this case are called protoplanetary discs because they...
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    the Yellow Hypergiant Star ρ Cassiopeiae: Convection Cells and Circumstellar Envelope". The Astrophysical Journal. 974 (1): 113. arXiv:2408.02756v2. Bibcode:2024ApJ...
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     493. p. 291. Bibcode:2015ASPC..493..291Z. Farihi, J. (1 April 2016). "Circumstellar debris and pollution at white dwarf stars". New Astronomy Reviews. 71:...
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    Protoplanetary disk Proplyd Asteroseismology Helioseismology Circumstellar dust Cosmic dust Circumstellar envelope Eddington luminosity Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism...
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    evolution of the Solar System Interstellar ice List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules Nebula Orion molecular cloud complex Perseus molecular cloud...
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    Capture theory Capture of Triton Circumplanetary disk Circumstellar disc Circumstellar envelope Coatlicue Co-orbital configuration Trojan moons Co-orbital...
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    proposed the presently-accepted composition of stellar atmospheres Circumstellar envelope Heliosphere ""Beyond the Blue Horizon" – A Total Solar Eclipse Chase"...
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  • Committee for Small-Body Nomenclature CSE – (celestial object) circumstellar envelope, a roughly spherical planetary nebula formed from dense stellar...
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    Astrochemistry Atomic and molecular astrophysics Chemical formula Circumstellar dust Circumstellar envelope Cosmic dust Cosmic ray Cosmochemistry Diffuse interstellar...
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    "Submillimeter- and Millimeter-Wavelength Observations of SiO and HCN in Circumstellar Envelopes of AGB Stars". Astrophysical Journal. 543 (2): 897–921. Bibcode:2000ApJ...
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    pulses violently, the star's gravity is not sufficient to hold its outer envelope, resulting in significant mass loss and shedding. The ejected material...
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    luminous as a small galaxy. As a quasi-star cools over time, its outer envelope would become transparent, until further cooling to a limiting temperature...
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    Astrochemistry Atomic and molecular astrophysics Chemical formula Circumstellar dust Circumstellar envelope Cosmic dust Cosmic ray Cosmochemistry Diffuse interstellar...
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    Astrochemistry Atomic and molecular astrophysics Chemical formula Circumstellar dust Circumstellar envelope Cosmic dust Cosmic ray Cosmochemistry Diffuse interstellar...
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    Protoplanetary disk Proplyd Asteroseismology Helioseismology Circumstellar dust Cosmic dust Circumstellar envelope Eddington luminosity Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism...
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    configuration is said to be in a common envelope phase or undergoing common envelope evolution. During a common envelope phase the embedded binary system is...
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    transparent to ultraviolet radiation. Thus, massive stars have a radiative envelope. The lowest mass main sequence stars have no radiation zone; the dominant...
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    Protoplanetary disk (category Circumstellar disks)
    A protoplanetary disk is a rotating circumstellar disc of dense gas and dust surrounding a young newly formed star, a T Tauri star, or Herbig Ae/Be star...
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    Protoplanetary disk Proplyd Asteroseismology Helioseismology Circumstellar dust Cosmic dust Circumstellar envelope Eddington luminosity Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism...
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