Constant-radius accretion energy budget

ID: constant-radius-accretion-energy-budget

Integrating at fixed radius gives this result. With negligible seed mass it supplies the radiative requirement of monatomic cloud collapse only if under the adopted zero-initial-energy approximation. A different density-profile coefficient, retained accretion heat, a wind or a changing radius modifies the budget. Positive binding-energy magnitude and negative potential energy must not be interchanged silently.

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