Turnoff mass of a homogeneously mixed proton-proton-burning population

ID: turnoff-mass-of-a-homogeneously-mixed-proton-proton-burning-population

Let a fixed-mass, fully mixed stellar model evolve by hydrogen burning, with and . Energy conservation gives . The time to reach is therefore . If and the function are common to the population, the integral is constant and . This includes the change of luminosity during fuel depletion rather than replacing the luminosity by its initial value.

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