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| Apr 7, 2017 at 7:54 | comment | added | ProfRob | @handroski In principle a degenerate gas is easy to heat up (I assume you mean raise the temperature), because it has a very low heat capacity. It is more complicated in the He core, because the ions are non-degenerate. They can act as a sink of thermal energy. The core does heat up, that's how carbon is produced... | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 1:20 | comment | added | handroski | "And, because there are few empty low energy states, then they cannot easily suffer dissipative scattering events unless the fermion involved is above the local Fermi energy." This makes a lot of sense to me. Electrons are able to conduct heat from the core outward because they are not easily caught. Naturally this process will occur from hotter regions to cooler ones. does this prevent the core from heating up? Or is that some process related to neutrino loss? | |
| Apr 6, 2017 at 23:17 | history | answered | ProfRob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |