super-Eddington

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Eddington mass limit

  • In Eddington mass limit

    …cases, such behaviour is called super-Eddington and has been attributed to such processes as convection, so that the internal fluid motions transport some energy and thus the portion of the object’s luminosity that can be attributed to radiation is smaller than that of the Eddington mass limit.

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