DEGENERATE MATTER - Highly compressed matter in which the normal atomic structure has broken down and which, because of quantum-mechanical effects, exerts a pressure that is independent of temperature. Bodies with masses <1.4 Msun (e.g.
Degenerate Matter
Extremely high density matter in which pressure no longer depends on temperature due to the quantum mechanical effects.
Density Wave Theory ...
Degenerate Matter
A state of matter found in white dwarfs and other extremely dense objects, in which strong deviations from classical laws of physics occur.
Degenerate matter
Strongly resist compression.
Pressure only depends on speed of degenerate particles NOT the temperature.
Larger mass means more compression---smaller object!
White Dwarfs
Novae and Supernovae Type Ia ...
degenerate matter (NASA Thesaurus) A state of matter found in white dwarf stars and other ultrahigh-density objects in which the electrons follow Fermi-Dirac statistics, i.e.
The meaning of the term changed over time, and from the last half of the 20th century onwards it was used to refer to extremely dense phases of matter resembling the neutron-degenerate matter postulated to exist in the cores of neutron stars.
4 solar masses become white dwarfs and will eventually cool down to black spheres of electron degenerate matter. Cores of 1.4 - 3 solar masses become neutron stars, 10 km spheres of rapidly spinning neutron degenerate matter.
A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. As white dwarfs have mass comparable to the Sun's and their volume is comparable to the Earth's, they are very dense.
Quark stars and quark matter, quark-degenerate matter
Preon stars and preon matter, preon-degenerate matter
Neutron
Neutronium, neutron-degenerate matter
Rotating radio transients
Radio quiet neutron stars
Pulsar
Magnetar
Millisecond pulsar ...
The core that remains, an ultradense hunk of degenerate matter the size of the Earth, will be a white dwarf.
At the end of its lifetime, a star can also contain a proportion of degenerate matter. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth.
The core that remains will be a tiny ball of degenerate matter not massive enough for further fusion to take place, supported only by degeneracy pressure, called a white dwarf. It will fade into a black dwarf over absurdly long stretches of time.
A state found in white dwarfs and other degenerate matter in which the atoms are packed so tightly that the electron orbits encroach on each other to the point where an electron can no longer be regarded as belonging to any particular nucleus and ...
It is somewhere between 2 and 3 solar masses. It is uncertain because the properties of neutron degenerate matter are not well understood and it is difficult to get experimental information that would help us to better understand such matter.
were the size of dust mites, atoms would be as large as football stadiums), and most of the core of the star becomes a dense ball of contiguous neutrons (in some ways like a giant atomic nucleus), with a thin overlying layer of degenerate matter ...
 See also: Mass, Pressure, Star, Dwarf, White Dwarf
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