Solution

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Let the stellar radius and temperature be and . Assume Bond albedo , isotropic stellar emission, blackbody planetary emission, and complete redistribution over the tidally locked planet. The absorbed stellar power is
Adding the isolated internal luminosity and balancing the total against gives the planetary equilibrium temperature
If heat is reradiated uniformly only over the dayside, replace the denominator by . The latter is often more plausible for inefficient redistribution on a tidally locked bare planet.

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