Very Low-Mass Stars: structural and evolutionary properties

2011/11/28 by Santi Cassisi, Cassisi, Santi
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) #astro-ph.SR

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1111.6464

10 pages, 7 figures, Proceeding of the School of Astrophysics "F. Lucchin", XI Cycle, 4th Course, to appear on "Memorie della Societa' Astronomica Italiana", G. Bono & M. Zoccali eds

arxiv created 2011/11/28 · arxiv updated 2011/11/29

Abstract

We briefly review the main physical and structural properties of Very Low-Mass stars. The most important improvements in the physical inputs required for the stellar models computations are also discussed. We show some comparisons with observational measurements concerning both the Color-Magnitude diagrams, mass-luminosity relations and mass-radius one, in order to disclose the level of agreement between the present theoretical framework and observations.

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