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  2. Radiative zone - Wikipedia

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    A radiative zone is a layer of a star's interior where energy is primarily transported toward the exterior by means of radiative diffusion and thermal conduction, rather than by convection. [1] Energy travels through the radiative zone in the form of electromagnetic radiation as photons .

  3. Near and far field - Wikipedia

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    The near field refers to places nearby the antenna conductors, or inside any polarizable media surrounding it, where the generation and emission of electromagnetic waves can be interfered with while the field lines remain electrically attached to the antenna, hence absorption of radiation in the near field by adjacent conducting objects detectably affects the loading on the signal generator ...

  4. Stellar structure - Wikipedia

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    Thus, radiation dominates in the inner portion of solar mass stars. The outer portion of solar mass stars is cool enough that hydrogen is neutral and thus opaque to ultraviolet photons, so convection dominates. Therefore, solar mass stars have radiative cores with convective envelopes in the outer portion of the star.

  5. Convection zone - Wikipedia

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    These are the granular zones in the outer layers of the stars. A convection zone, convective zone or convective region of a star is a layer which is unstable due to convection. Energy is primarily or partially transported by convection in such a region. In a radiation zone, energy is transported by radiation and conduction.

  6. Van Allen radiation belt - Wikipedia

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    The Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around a planet by that planet's magnetosphere. Earth has two such belts, and sometimes others may be temporarily created.

  7. Tachocline - Wikipedia

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    The tachocline is the transition region of stars of more than 0.3 solar masses, between the radiative interior and the differentially rotating outer convective zone. This causes the region to have a very large shear as the rotation rate changes very rapidly. The convective exterior rotates as a normal fluid with differential rotation with the ...

  8. Helioseismology - Wikipedia

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    a rigidly-rotating radiative (i.e. non-convective) zone, though the rotation rate of the inner core is not well known; a thin shear layer, known as the tachocline, which separates the rigidly-rotating interior and the differentially-rotating convective envelope; a convective envelope in which the rotation rate varies both with depth and ...

  9. Hayashi track - Wikipedia

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    The forbidden zone is the region on the HR diagram to the right of the Hayashi track where no star can be in hydrostatic equilibrium, even those that are partially or fully radiative. Newborn protostars start out in this zone, but are not in hydrostatic equilibrium and will rapidly move towards the Hayashi track.