On the escaping supersonic isothermal Parker wind branch, . Its integrated equation gives , so and the title result follows. A further iteration yields . The leading logarithmic growth holds for any supersonic branch with a fixed finite integration constant, but does not describe a subsonic isothermal breeze. The unbounded speed is a formal consequence of indefinite isothermal heating in a prescribed central gravitational potential.

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