Probabilistically modelling the birth and death of stars: changing the game with fast and precise emulation-enabled radiative cooling KU Leuven
Electromagnetic radiation provides an efficient heating and cooling mechanism that plays a crucial role throughout astrophysics. Radiative cooling critically determines, for instance, both the birth and the death of stars: radiative cooling dictates (1) whether a giant molecular cloud can cool enough during its gravitational collapse to reach a sufficient density for stars to form, and (2) whether the outer layers of evolved stars can cool ...