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Two of these are the statements that both r (Mr) and Lint i^r) vanish at the center of the configuration: M = 0: r(0) = 0 Li^t (0) = 0 . (40) A third condition is that P {Mr) must equal the appropriate photospheric value when M^ — M*: The fourth boundary condition concerns the surface value of the temperature and its relation to the luminosity. For a PMS star, this relation is the standard photospheric one given by eq. (4): M = M,: L = AivRlaT^^ . (42) The full four stellar structure equations can now be solved as a two-point boundary value problem, in which the values of the pressure and entropy are guessed at the center, while the stellar radius and luminosity are guessed at the surface.
For a PMS star, this relation is the standard photospheric one given by eq. (4): M = M,: L = AivRlaT^^ . (42) The full four stellar structure equations can now be solved as a two-point boundary value problem, in which the values of the pressure and entropy are guessed at the center, while the stellar radius and luminosity are guessed at the surface. One can integrate the equations from both directions to an interior fitting point, where the four guesses must be changed until all variables match.
In the lower panel, no deuterium is present in the gas. of [D/H]. (Adapted from Stahler [47]) gravitational contraction. Note t h a t for low-mass stars, t h e accretion time is always much shorter t h a n ^KH- Due to t h e sensitivity of L^ad ^^ ^ * , t h e equality of the two time scales is confined to a rather narrow range of masses, between 2 and 3 MQ. If nothing else happened in t h e interior, t h e rapid contraction would lead to the conditions appropriate for hydrogen burning in the center, and the star would then join t h e main-sequence while still accreting.