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Perhaps there is not enough data like you said or it would not be any more accurate but doesn't luminosity equal 4piR^2T^4 ? Where pi is 3.14..., R is the radius, and T is temperature. If there was enough data one could relate mass and radius, and also relate mass and temperature using an...

I am not sure if this is helpful but I came across the following from a Russian astronomy journal: http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=ATROES000042000006000793000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes&jsessionid=2345211086884141292 I believe that in the above article...

I just thought of something. One could try to find an best fit equation or equations that relates mass to radius. I believe luminosity is both strongly related to mass and radius. Using this information the complexity of the equation would increase and, perhaps be more accurate. Also, if you...

Yeah, .08 not .008. My mistake. On further a look I found that m^4 is bad for high mass stars. According to my information stars with solar masses around 6 sm correspond to close to 300 L. m^4 gives a luminosity of nearly 1300. This is a little over 4 times the luminosity that my sources give...

This link may help :rolleyes: http://aa.springer.de/papers/9341001/2300121/sc6.htm Although I did not take a close look, I believe it suggests that, at least so far, there is no "accurate" mass-luminosity relation. The mass-luminosity varies greatly to some extent and is, therefore, only...

I would also like to know this. I have been searching the internet and have only found a few more detailed approximations. Even these few approximations do not agree. An example of disagreements are the following: one site said: While anothe rsite told me something like masses close to...