Mestel's cooling law
= 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 $L/M\propto T_c^{7/2}$ in terms of core temperature.
= Mestel's cooling law
{c}
Mestel's cooling law matches a degenerate isothermal white-dwarf core to a nondegenerate radiative envelope. With Kramers opacity it gives $L/M\propto T_c^{7/2}$ in terms of core temperature.