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Helium Flash

Helium Flash is a transient thermonuclear runaway event occurring in the degenerate core of low-mass red giant stars, where the sudden ignition of helium fusion into carbon via the triple-alpha process distinguishes it from quiescent helium burning in non-degenerate conditions.

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510

Authors

264

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2017–2026

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Variants

Helium Core Flash

Parents

Publications

257

The Evolution of Low Mass Stars

P. P. Eggleton · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1971 · 689 citations · Full text

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Lithium and the s-PROCESS in Red-Giant Stars

A. G. W. Cameron, William A. Fowler · The Astrophysical Journal · 1971 · 554 citations

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Hot Subdwarf Stars

U. Heber · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2009 · 473 citations

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Double-detonation sub-Chandrasekhar supernovae: can minimum helium shell masses detonate the core?

M. Fink, F. K. Röpke, W. Hillebrandt et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2010 · 439 citations · Full text

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Faint Thermonuclear Supernovae from AM Canum Venaticorum Binaries

Lars Bildsten, Ken J. Shen, Nevin N. Weinberg et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2007 · 409 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. AV
    A. V. Sweigart

    Goddard Space Flight Center, United States

    10 publications · 770 citations

    10

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  2. RG
    R. G. Deupree

    Saint Mary's University, Canada

    8 publications · 179 citations

    8

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  3. MY
    Masayuki Y. Fujimoto

    Hokkaido University, Japan

    8 publications · 433 citations

    8

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  4. MM
    Miroslav Mocák

    Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Germany

    7 publications · 234 citations

    7

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  5. GC
    Geoffrey C. Clayton

    Louisiana State University, United States

    7 publications · 649 citations

    7

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Institutions

264

  1. Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics

    Garching, Germany

    17 h-index

    42 publications

    4.5K citations

  2. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    12 h-index

    18 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    11 h-index

    20 publications

    1.5K citations

  4. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    1.8K citations

  5. Collurania Teramo Observatory

    Teramo, Italy

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    769 citations

  6. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    8 h-index

    20 publications

    1.9K citations

  7. Louisiana State University

    Baton Rouge, United States

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    557 citations

  8. Université Libre de Bruxelles

    Brussels, Belgium

    7 h-index

    11 publications

    288 citations

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Venues

  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 125 publications · 8.9K citations

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  2. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    29 publications · 1.6K citations

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  3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    17 publications · 1.7K citations

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  4. The Astrophysical Journal Letters

    6 publications · 267 citations

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  5. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 5 publications · 342 citations

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