COMMUNICATIONS / MITTEILUNGEN
G. Marx and J. Németh
The Role of Photoneutrinos in the Evolution of the Stars
No. 52
Budapest, 1962
Abstract
During the stellar evolution, after being exhausted a certain type of
thermonuclear reaction, a gravitational contraction follows, usually
with an increase of the central temperature. Arriving at the temperature
3-5 x 109 K all nuclear energy sources are exhausted, the star becomes
a victim of a supernova explosion. A cooling of the centre, however,
can be guaranteed by means of the transformation of the thermal radiation
into neutrinos, so the supernova fate can be prevented for a wide class
of stars. Here the photoneutrino-pair transmutation in the plasma (in
the Coulomb-field of nuclei) is treated. The influence of the degeneracy
of electron gas is discussed separately.
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