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Solution Strategies:    

Detailed Force-Balance
(Introduction)

Virial Equilibrium
(Introduction)

Example Solutions:
  • Uniform-density sphere
        Isolated …
    Embedded in an External Medium …
  • Polytropes
    Isolated …
    Embedded in an External Medium …
  • Isothermal sphere
    Isolated …
    Embedded in an External Medium (Bonnor-Ebert Sphere) …
  • Zero-temperature White Dwarf — Overview
  • Power-law density distribution — Overview
  • BiPolytropes (also referred to as Composite Polytropes)
Overview Overview
        Core-Envelope Structure with <math>~(n_c,n_e) = (0,0)</math> …
        Core-Envelope Structure with <math>~(n_c,n_e) = (5,1)</math> …
        Core-Envelope Structure with <math>~(n_c,n_e) = (1,5)</math> …   …  
        Also to be studied: Ball, Tout, & Żytkow (2012, MNRAS, 421, 2713)