Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-astrophysics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2022/2/d/solution

For a regular spherical star, let and . The stellar mass conservation equation and stellar hydrostatic equation are
Assuming the smoothness needed for the requested Taylor series, write . There is no point mass at the centre, so , and matching the stellar mass conservation equation gives , . Substitution in the stellar hydrostatic equation gives , hence
The remainder orders use a smooth spherically symmetric scalar density, for which . Merely finite continuous density gives the same leading coefficients with and remainders. In particular , despite the apparent in the stellar hydrostatic equation.

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