Cosmic Radiation and Stellar Evolution

Abstract

IN connexion with the recent hypotheses¹ that some of the components of the cosmic rays are ions, it may be noted that the emission of high speed ions from stars would reduce their mass by the same amount as if these ions had been annihilated in the manner suggested by Jeans. The emission of a proton from a star represents the same loss of stellar mass as the transformation of a proton and an electron into a quantum of ultra γ-radiation.