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Context

Global Energy Considerations

Principal Governing Equations (PGEs)		Continuity		Euler		1st Law of Thermodynamics		Poisson

 

Equation of State (EOS)		Ideal Gas		Total Pressure   Bond, Arnett, & Carr (1984)

Spherically Symmetric Configurations

(Initially) Spherically Symmetric Configurations

 

		Structural Form Factors		Free-Energy of Spherical Systems

One-Dimensional PGEs

Equilibrium Structures

1D STRUCTURE

 

		Scalar Virial Theorem

Hydrostatic Balance Equation		$\frac{dP}{dr}=-\frac{G{M}_r\rho }{r^2}$		Solution Strategies

Uniform-Density Sphere

 

Isothermal Sphere		$\frac{1}{{\xi }^2}\frac{d}{d\xi }\left({\xi }^2\frac{d\psi }{d\xi }\right)=e^{-\psi }$		via Direct Numerical Integration

Isolated Polytropes		Lane (1870)		$\frac{1}{{\xi }^2}\frac{d}{d\xi }\left({\xi }^2\frac{d{\mathrm{\Theta }}_H}{d\xi }\right)=-{\mathrm{\Theta }}_H^n$		Known Analytic Solutions		via Direct Numerical Integration		via Self-Consistent Field (SCF) Technique

Zero-Temperature White Dwarf		Chandrasekhar Limiting Mass (1935)

Virial Equilibrium of Pressure-Truncated Polytropes

Pressure-Truncated Configurations		Bonnor-Ebert (Isothermal) Spheres (1955 - 56)		Polytropes		Equilibrium Sequence Turning-Points ♥				Turning-Points (Broader Context)

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