Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Born
19 October 1910(1910-10-19)
Lahore, Punjab, British India
Died
August 21, 1995 (aged 84)
Chicago, Illinois, United States ...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
This article is about the Indian-American physicist. For other uses of Chandra, please see Chandra (disambiguation). For the film director, see Jay Chandrasekhar
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was known to the world as Chandra. The word chandra means "moon" or "luminous" in Sanskrit.P ...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculates the maximum mass of a white dwarf; more-massive stars will form denser objects ...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Subramanyan Chandrasekhar
1910-1995
Indian-born American
made important theoretical contributions concerning the structure and evolution of stars, especially white dwarfs ...
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (Born Lahore, India on Oct. 19, 1910 -Died Chicago, USA in 1995) was an Indian-American astrophysicist who studied stellar physics, evolution, and black holes.
1930 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar discovers the white dwarf maximum mass limit, ...
4 times that of the Sun, a limit discovered in the 1930s by Subramanyan Chandrasekhar when he applied relativity theory to the gases in white dwarfs.
A young student who was thinking about these things, Subrahmanya Chandrasekhar, came to a rather startling realization - that if you added more mass to a white dwarf, it got smaller in size (radius).
The modern value of the limit was first published in 1931 by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar in his paper "The Maximum Mass of Ideal White Dwarfs". For a nonrotating white dwarf, it is equal to approximately 5.
NASA's premier X-ray observatory was recently named the Chandra X-ray Observatory in honor of the late Indian-American Nobel laureate, Subrahmanyan .
A large Advanced X-Ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) has been renamed Chandra, the nickname of the late distinguished astronomer Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
The limit is named after the Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who first proposed the idea in 1931.
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A very detailed mathematical treatment of this from the point of view of the Navier-Stokes equations and the equations of Thermodynamics can be found in the first third of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's Hydrodynamic and Hydromagnetic Stability, ...
NASA's premier x-ray observatory was named the Chandra X-ray Observatory in honor of the late Indian-American Nobel laureate, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Chandrasekhar Limit ...
4 Msun, above which an object has too much mass for electron degeneracy pressure to prevent collapse into a neutron star (the maximum mass of a white dwarf star). Named after Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, ...
Named stars: Alpha Leo (Regulus), Beta Leo (Denebola), Gamma Leo (Algieba), Delta Leo (Duhr), Epsilon Leo (Ras Elased Australis), Zeta Leo (Aldhafera), Mu Leo (Ras Elased Borealis), Omicron Leo (Subra) ...
ALGIEBA (Gamma 1 Leo)
Zosma (Delta Leo)
Ras Elased Australis (Epsilon Leo)
Adhafera (Zeta Leo)
Chort (Theta Leo)
Al Minliar al Asad (Kappa Leo)
Alterf (Lambda Leo)
Ras Elased Borealis (Mu Leo)
Subra (Omicron Leo) ...
4 solar masses is called the Chandrasekhar limit after the Indian astrophysicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995). He won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery and now has NASA's X-ray observatory, Chandra, named in his honour.
Algieba (γ1 Leo), Al Minliar al Asad (κ Leo), Alterf (λ Leo), Chort (Chertan, θ Leo), Ras Elased Australis (Algenubi, ε Leo), Ras Elased Borealis (Raslas, μ Leo), Regulus (α Leo), Shir (ρ Leo), Subra ...
Detailed calculations show that the maximum mass of a white dwarf is about 1.4 solar masses, a mass often called the Chandrasekhar mass, after the Indian astronomer Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, ...
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