For a fixed-mass fully mixed hydrogen burning star with whose radiative stellar homology gives , put . The luminosity is and fuel conservation gives . Hence , producing the displayed feedback law. This applies both to CNO homology with density-dependent inverse-cubic opacity and to radiative homology with fifth-power hydrogen burning and inverse-cubic opacity, at fixed metal mass fraction in the latter. Its physical domain ends at , before the formal denominator vanishes. The idealization holds the coefficient normalizations fixed while stellar composition changes through the mean molecular weight and fuel abundance.

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