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Eddington luminosity
ID: eddington-luminosity
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Eddington luminosity
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2026-09-24
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2026-09-24
Balancing outward radiative
acceleration
against
gravity
gives
L
Edd
=
κ
4
π
c
GM
.
(1)
It is an approximate upper
luminosity
for
a
hydrostatic
star
of opacity
κ
.
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