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stellar mass

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stellar mass [′stelĀ·ər ′mas]
(astrophysics)
The mass of a star, usually expressed in terms of the sun's mass.


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But calculating stellar mass turns out to be tricky.
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The remaining 42 papers are presented in accordance with the conference sessions, which were dedicated to dynamical processes, stellar mass loss as origin of circumstellar material, structure and dynamics of circumstellar disks, and evolutionary effects in active OB-stars.
 
 
 
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