[mesa-users] L/L_edd>1?

[Tomer Shacham]

Hi Matteo,
Thanks for your reply.
The Radiative luminosity cannot exceed Eddington, at least in the
hydrostatic limit. (Inside a star the total luminosity can exceed Eddington
only via convection.)
Best,
Tomer

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Tomer Shacham


High Energy Physics Group
Institute     of     Physics
The  Hebrew  University
Jerusalem,   Israel  91904



On 4 May 2014 19:35, Matteo Cantiello <matteo at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Hi Tomer,
> I suggest you have a look at Sec. 7 of the second instrument paper (Paxton
> et al. 2013)
> where this issue is discussed at length.
>
> Overall, while at the stellar surface the stellar luminosity is limited by
> the Eddington Luminosity,
> deeper in the star it can (and it does in massive stars) exceed that
> limit.
>
> If in such cases the solution provided by 1D codes using MLT is a good
> approximation, well that's another story.
>
> -M
>
>
> On May 4, 2014, at 6:56 AM, Tomer Shacham <tomershacham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Mesa-users
>
> Does anyone have an explanation for how is it possible for the radiative
> luminosity L_rad to be larger than the Eddington luminosity L_edd?
>
> (this happens almost always for high mass stars without using MLT++)
>
> Thanks,
> Tomer
> --
> Tomer Shacham
>
>
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