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“mass luminosity relation”
An empirical relation between the mass and luminosity, both usually expressed in solar units, for main sequence stars: The mass-luminosity relation was predicted by Eddington in 1924.
For sunlike stars, the luminosity varies as the 3.5 power of the mass.
The power is smaller for lower mass stars.
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