For gas-pressure-supported stellar homology with opacity and stellar energy-generation rate , radiative diffusion in a star gives . Integrating the heating rate instead gives . Equality in stellar thermal equilibrium yields the displayed radius law and . This fixes the dimensionless profiles and coefficients, and neglects radiation pressure; it is a model comparison rather than a universal law for all main sequence stars. At fixed mass and metal mass fraction, homogeneous hydrogen burning gives the homogeneous fuel-depletion luminosity feedback through .
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