SSC/Structure/BiPolytropes/Analytic51Renormalize

BiPolytrope with $n_c=5$ and $n_e=1$

Eggleton, Faulkner & Cannon (1998) Analytic (nc, ne) = (5, 1)

Comment by J. E. Tohline on 30 March 2013: As far as I have been able to determine, this analytic structural model has not previously been published in a refereed, archival journal. Subsequent comment by J. E. Tohline on 23 June 2013: Last night I stumbled upon an article by Eagleton, Faulkner, and Cannon (1998) in which this identical analytically definable bipolytrope has been presented. Insight drawn from this article is presented in an additional subsection, below.

Here we construct a bipolytrope in which the core has an $n_c=5$ polytropic index and the envelope has an $n_e=1$ polytropic index. This system is particularly interesting because the entire structure can be described by closed-form, analytic expressions. In deriving the properties of this model, we will follow the general solution steps for constructing a bipolytrope that we have outlined elsewhere.  
 
 
 

Steps 2 & 3

Based on the discussion presented elsewhere of the structure of an isolated $n=5$ polytrope, the core of this bipolytrope will have the following properties:

$\theta (\xi )=[1+\frac{1}{3}{\xi }^2{]}^{-1/2}\Rightarrow {\theta }_i=[1+\frac{1}{3}{\xi }_i^2{]}^{-1/2};$

$\frac{d\theta }{d\xi }=-\frac{\xi }{3}[1+\frac{1}{3}{\xi }^2{]}^{-3/2}\Rightarrow (\frac{d\theta }{d\xi }{)}_i=-\frac{{\xi }_i}{3}[1+\frac{1}{3}{\xi }_i^2{]}^{-3/2}.$

The first zero of the function $\theta (\xi )$ and, hence, the surface of the corresponding isolated $n=5$ polytrope is located at ${\xi }_s=\mathrm{\infty }$. Hence, the interface between the core and the envelope can be positioned anywhere within the range, $0<{\xi }_i<\mathrm{\infty }$.