identify red n blue horizontal sub giant stars on hr dig
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spectral type of Red HB
K G
spectral type BlueHB
A B
what’s extreme HB
v thin shell subdwarfs
type O B
thin H shell
helium content in sdB?
b type sub dwarf (extreme horizontal branch)
solar He content
helium content in sdO
v. high
AGB burning
CO core
He burn shell
H burn env
identify AGB?
core He ~ 0
AGB thermal pulses caused by?
when the ashes of H burning shell increase the mass of the He burning shell
early AGB
shell expands coz burning
H burning stops
CO core mass inc, becomes degenerate
composition n burning in HB vs AGB?
HB: stable He core
H shell
AGB: CO core He shell burn H shell burn H env