Subdwarf B star | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 17/06/2019

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00:01:31 1 History
00:02:19 2 Variables
00:04:32 3 Planetary systems



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A B-type subdwarf (sdB) is a kind of subdwarf star with spectral type B. They differ from the typical subdwarf by being much hotter and brighter. They are situated at the "extreme horizontal branch" of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram. Masses of these stars are around 0.5 solar masses, and they contain only about 1% hydrogen, with the rest being helium.  Their radius is from 0.15 to 0.25 solar radii, and their temperature is from 20,000 to 40,000K.
These stars represent a late stage in the evolution of some stars, caused when a red giant star loses its outer hydrogen layers before the core begins to fuse helium. The reasons why this premature mass loss occurs are unclear, but the interaction of stars in a binary star system is thought to be one of the main mechanisms. Single subdwarfs may be the result of a merger of two white dwarfs. The sdB stars are expected to become white dwarfs without going through any more giant stages.
Subdwarf B stars, being more luminous than white dwarfs, are a significant component in the hot star population of old stellar systems, such as globular clusters, spiral galaxy bulges and elliptical galaxies.  They are prominent on ultraviolet images.  The hot subdwarfs are proposed to be the cause of the UV upturn in the light output of elliptical galaxies.