From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 14:48:03 MST
Anders Sandberg:
>You would end up with the Eddington luminosity if the gas was just
>gravitationally attracted. I guess a slightly different luminosity would
>result if it was instead pressured. From the Second Fount of Knowledge
>(http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/EddingtonLuminosity.html), I
>get: L_eddington = 4 pi c G M m / sigma_T
This equation assumes a hydrogen gas sphere in hydrostatic equilibrium,
with the total energy transport via radiation.
Are these the assumptions that you want?
Amara
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