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BiPolytrope with <math>n_c = 1</math> and <math>n_e=5</math>

Whitworth's (1981) Isothermal Free-Energy Surface
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Here we construct a bipolytrope in which the core has an <math>~n_c=1</math> polytropic index and the envelope has an <math>~n_e=5</math> polytropic index. As in the case of our separately discussed, "mirror image" bipolytropes having <math>~(n_c, n_e) = (5, 1)</math>, this system is particularly interesting because the entire structure can be described by closed-form, analytic expressions. [On 12 April 2015, J. E. Tohline wrote: I became aware of the published discussions of this system by Murphy — and especially the work of Murphy & Fiedler (1985) — (see itemization of additional key references, below) in March of 2015 after searching the internet for previous analyses of radial oscillations in polytropes and, then, reading through Horedt's (2004) §2.8.1 discussion of composite polytropes.]

Key References


Steps 2 & 3

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

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Whitworth's (1981) Isothermal Free-Energy Surface

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