Uniform gas-pressure fraction and constant-luminosity radiative-envelope incompatibility

ID: uniform-gas-pressure-fraction-and-constant-luminosity-radiative-envelope-incompatibility

For a radiative envelope, . Exactly uniform stellar gas-pressure fraction instead requires this derivative to be . Constant opacity therefore requires to increase in proportion to enclosed mass. A positive-density finite-mass envelope with no local energy generation has constant and cannot satisfy all these conditions pointwise. The Eddington-model convective-core mass fraction uses constant as a global approximation, rather than an exact detailed envelope constraint.

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