Radiative shift of an isothermal breeze maximum

ID: radiative-shift-of-an-isothermal-breeze-maximum

For unattenuated isotropic radiation from a point source, the radiation pressure force on each absorbing particle is . Dividing by its mass changes the effective inverse-square inward acceleration to . The wind equation therefore places the maximum of a subsonic isothermal breeze at the displayed radius, provided the bracket is positive. If it is nonpositive, the positive-temperature subsonic outflow decreases in speed throughout its domain and has no interior speed maximum. A cross section per particle requires that particle's mass; an opacity per unit mass instead absorbs this conversion.

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