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    The red clump is a clustering of red giants in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram at around 5,000 K and absolute magnitude (MV) +0.5, slightly hotter than...
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    fusing hydrogen into helium in a shell surrounding an inert helium core red-clump stars in the cool half of the horizontal branch, fusing helium into carbon...
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    otherwise identical. A related class of stars is the clump giants, those belonging to the so-called red clump, which are the relatively younger (and hence more...
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    A red dwarf is the smallest kind of star on the main sequence. Red dwarfs are by far the most common type of star in the Milky Way, at least in the neighborhood...
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    relatively short period on the red-giant branch they ignite helium without a flash and spend an extended period in the red clump before forming a degenerate...
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    dwarfs White dwarfs Red dwarfs Subdwarfs Main sequence ("dwarfs") Subgiants Giants Red giants Blue giants Bright giants Supergiants Red supergiant Hypergiants...
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    bars, one nestled within the other. The bar is delineated by red-clump stars (see also red giant); however, RR Lyrae variables do not trace a prominent...
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    was confirmed by the same means, by core helium-burning red clump stars, and by the tip of the red giant branch. All three papers find an inclination of...
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    descriptions as a fallback Hess diagram – Diagram of stars in astronomy Red clump – Clustering of stars in astronomy diagram Stellar birthline – Construct...
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    are often observed as a red clump of stars in the colour-magnitude diagram of a cluster, hotter and less luminous than the red giants. Higher-mass stars...
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    times the Sun's luminosity and 11.98 ± 0.57 times its radius. An aging red clump star, it is fusing helium to carbon and oxygen in its core. Capella Ab...
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    object Hayashi track Henyey track Evolution Main sequence Red-giant branch Horizontal branch Red clump Asymptotic giant branch post-AGB super-AGB Blue loop...
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  • mixed traits of an evolved subgiant and giant star. It is catalogued as a red clump giant, which would indicate it is generating energy through helium fusion...
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    the VVV survey with the help of red clump stars. The VVV survey also found two overlapping populations of red clump stars and an X-shape of the bulge...
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    temperature a little lower than today. It will then have reached the red clump or horizontal branch, but a star of the Sun's metallicity does not evolve...
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    the properties of red-clump stars can be used to determine the mass difference before and after the helium flash. Mass lost from red giants also determines...
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  • class of star that develops from a red dwarf after it has exhausted much of its hydrogen fuel supply. Because red dwarfs fuse their hydrogen slowly and...
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    measured CP of q = 7 × 10 − 3 {\displaystyle q=7\times 10^{-3}} for the red supergiant NML Cygni and q = 2 × 10 − 3 {\displaystyle q=2\times 10^{-3}}...
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    object Hayashi track Henyey track Evolution Main sequence Red-giant branch Horizontal branch Red clump Asymptotic giant branch post-AGB super-AGB Blue loop...
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    their lives: a main red-giant branch (RGB); a red horizontal branch or red clump; the asymptotic giant branch (AGB), although AGB stars are often large...
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    object Hayashi track Henyey track Evolution Main sequence Red-giant branch Horizontal branch Red clump Asymptotic giant branch post-AGB super-AGB Blue loop...
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    Observations of rho Ophiuchi A: The Candidate Protostar VLA 1623 and Prestellar Clumps". Astrophysical Journal. 406: 122. Bibcode:1993ApJ...406..122A. doi:10.1086/172425...
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    giant branch Hess diagram Red clump Stellar classification Müller, Oliver; Rejkuba, Marina; Jerjen, Helmut (2018). "Tip of the red giant branch distances...
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    clumping of particles. The word agglutination comes from the Latin agglutinare (glueing to). Agglutination is a reaction in which particles (as red blood...
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  • Look up red dwarf in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Red dwarfs. This is a list of exceptional red dwarfs. This...
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    stars. The Sun is in fact white, but it can often appear yellow, orange or red through Earth's atmosphere due to atmospheric Rayleigh scattering, especially...
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    luminosity class V: main-sequence stars (dwarfs). Example: Achernar (B6Vep) Red dwarfs are low-mass main-sequence stars. Yellow dwarfs are main-sequence...
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    using the Spitzer Space Telescope failed to show the expected density of red clump giants in the direction of the Sagittarius and Norma arms. In January...
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