Divide the radiation-pressure gradient by the total-pressure gradient. Radiative diffusion in a star and hydrostatic equilibrium give
This last quantity is independent of radius under the specified opacity assumption. Integration gives . With the standard idealized zero-pressure outer boundary, where both components vanish, . The stellar gas-pressure fraction is therefore
constant throughout the model. This is the Eddington standard model idealization. A finite photospheric pressure offset would need its boundary treatment; the differential relation alone does not set the integration constant to zero.

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