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As we saw in the previous chapter, Eddington’s theory of stars, based on the principle of radiative equilibrium, was spectacularly successful in predicting their mass–luminosity relation.
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Srinivasan, G. (2014). Why are the Stars as they are?. In: What are the Stars?. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45302-1_4
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