A theoretical study of stellart pulsations in young brown dwarfs

dc.contributor.advisor	Olivier, Etienne Aubrey
dc.contributor.author	Okeng'o, Geoffrey Onchong’a
dc.contributor.other	Dept. of Physics
dc.contributor.other	Faculty of Science
dc.date.accessioned	2014-01-15T10:06:43Z
dc.date.available	2011/06/20 07:41
dc.date.available	2011/06/20
dc.date.available	2014-01-15T10:06:43Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11394/2567
dc.description	Magister Scientiae - Msc	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This thesis reports the results of a twofold study on the recently proposed phenomenon of ‘stellar pulsations’ in young brown dwarfs by the seminal study of Palla and Baraffe (2005) (PB05, thereafter). The PB05 study presents results of a non-adiabatic linear stability analysis showing that young brown dwarfs should become pulsationally unstable during the deuterium burning phase of their evolution.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of the Western Cape	en_US
dc.subject	Brown dwarfs	en_US
dc.subject	Very low mass stars	en_US
dc.subject	Pulsation equations	en_US
dc.subject	Perturbation equations	en_US
dc.subject	Work integrals	en_US
dc.subject	Viscosity	en_US
dc.subject	Turbulent pressure	en_US
dc.subject	Free parameters	en_US
dc.title	A theoretical study of stellart pulsations in young brown dwarfs	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.rights.holder	University of the Western Cape	en_US
dc.description.country	South Africa