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stellar remnant

(remnant)
(leftovers from a mainstream star)

A stellar remnant is specifically the final leftovers of a main sequence star after any post-main-sequence giant stages. It is generally a compact object such as a white dwarf, neutron star, or stellar-mass black hole. In the very-distant future, other kinds will become common, in particular, the cool remains of M dwarfs.


(star type,stellar evolution)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution#Stellar_remnants
http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/Labs/StarLife/remnants.html
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~helenj/SeniorAstro/lecture10.pdf
https://astronomy.ac.uk/astronomy/section3/remnants

Referenced by pages:
binary companion
binary neutron star (BNS)
black hole (BH)
black hole binary (BHB)
Black Widow Pulsar (B1957+20)
candidate companion (CC)
collapsar
compact object (CO)
core collapse supernova (CCSN)
giant star
main-sequence lifetime (MS lifetime)
Messier 67 (M67)
pair-instability supernova (PISN)
Puppis A
star
stellar demographics
stellar evolution
stellar merger
stellar-mass black hole (stellar-mass BH)
supernova remnant (SNR)
Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit (TOV)
white dwarf (WD)

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