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instability strip

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instability strip [‚in·stə′bil·əd·ē ‚strip]
(astronomy)
A portion of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram occupied by pulsating stars; stars traverse this region at least once after they leave the main sequence.


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The instability strip, which goes through Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and may immediately affect the Ferghana Valley, Kadyr Malikov, Director of Analytical and Research Center, told reporters today.
A sampling of topics: stellar evolution models of rotation in white dwarfs, central stars of planetary nebulae, a new look at the empirical initial-final mass relation, white dwarfs in the Capodimonte Deep Field, broad-band molecular polarization in white dwarfs, self-consistent diffusion in low mass hot stars, Spitzer observations of GD 362 and other metal-rich white dwarfs, the progenitors of type Ia supernovae, and testing the purity of the ZZ Ceti instability strip.
 
 
 
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