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Thermal Stability

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The development of a dynamical instability in the star causes its transition to a compact state (neutron star or black hole), may sometimes be accompanied by a supernova explosion, and represents the end of its nuclear evolution. Development of thermal instability does not necessarily lead to such a catastrophic result. Some displays of the thermal instability have been considered in Sects. 9.3 and 10.2.

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    The discovery of the millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster M 28 [658] corroborated this evolutionary scheme considered in [21, 177, 178]. Over forty radio pulsars with rapid rotation were discovered by 2001 in globular clusters [252, 966], see review [641].

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Bisnovatyi-Kogan, G.S. (2010). Thermal Stability. In: Stellar Physics. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14734-0_7

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