Glossary term: 亚巨星

Description: 亚巨星是指在赫罗图上位于主序和巨星支之间的恒星。这类恒星大多已经结束了内核的氢聚变，正在向巨星演化。其中一些亚巨星会发生脉动，从而成为变星。造父变星就是脉动亚巨星的一个例子。

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Caption: 这张图展示了不同恒星温度和亮度。每个点的大小代表恒星的半径，颜色代表人眼所看到的颜色。恒星的颜色从淡蓝色到淡橙红色不等，没有恒星具有像红、绿或蓝这样的纯颜色，因为恒星的光谱包含了许多不同颜色的光。然而，最红的恒星通常被称为红恒星，最蓝的恒星被称为蓝恒星。为了展示不同类型的恒星，制作这个图表的恒星样本选择上并没有反映出每种类型恒星的实际数量比例。从左上到右下是一条长长的恒星带，这些恒星在其核心燃烧氢气，这被称为主序。在这条线上，我们可以看到参宿三（Mintaka）、波江座α星（Achernar）、天狼星A（Sirius A）、太阳和比邻星（Proxima Centauri）等恒星。在主序线右下方的比邻星周围的天体被称为红矮星。在红矮星的右下方是Teide 1和Kelu-1 A。这两个天体是褐矮星，它们的质量太低，核心没有足够的热量来持续地进行氢融合。由于它们不燃烧氢，褐矮星不被认为是主序星。"褐矮星"这个名字与它们的颜色无关。在主序星的上方，我们发现次巨星、巨星和超巨星。这些是已经完成了核心的氢燃烧并演化成更大天体的恒星。恒星的亮度取决于其温度和大小，因此巨星比具有较小半径但相同温度的恒星更亮。随着时间的推移，这些天体将走向生命的尽头，经历行星状星云阶段或变成超新星。以行星状星云阶段结束生命的恒星会形成一种叫做白矮星的恒星残骸。这种天体比相同温度的恒星小得多，因此更暗淡，并且位于主序星带的显著下方。以超新星结束生命的恒星会成为黑洞或中子星。这些在这个图表上没有显示。
Credit: IAU OAE/Niall Deacon

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