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Mestel's cooling law

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Mestel's cooling law matches a degenerate isothermal white-dwarf core to a nondegenerate radiative envelope. With Kramers opacity it gives L/M∝Tc7/2​ in terms of core temperature.

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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2022 / iii / Paper 317 / 2 / ii / Solution

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