Entropy dependence of a polytropic mass-radius relation
ID: entropy-dependence-of-a-polytropic-mass-radius-relation
For a finite regular polytrope with fixed index, the scale implies . Thus, for , . For , . Fixed composition makes the cold electron degeneracy pressure coefficient approximately fixed, but a convective ideal gas has controlled by entropy. A stellar sequence with changing entropy therefore need not follow the fixed- negative slope.
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