For a chemically uniform, gas-pressure-supported stellar homology with Kramers' opacity law and specific heating , radiative diffusion in a star gives . Nuclear heating gives . Equating them yields . Thus gives a mass-independent radius, whereas gives and . The coefficients and dimensionless profiles must be fixed; this is an idealized radiative model rather than a universal stellar law.
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