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Stars massive enough to ignite nuclear burning cycles beyond helium burning may go through several cycles of core burning, producing increasingly heavier elements, up to iron, in their centres. This is the subject of this chapter.
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Kippenhahn, R., Weigert, A., Weiss, A. (2012). Later Phases of Core Evolution. In: Stellar Structure and Evolution. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30304-3_35
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