Friday, September 23, 2011

How do you calculate how much more luminous a star is than another?

If an M star has a temperature of 3,000K and an O star has a temperature of 30,000KIf an M star has a temperature of 3,000K and an O star has a temperature of 30,000K, and the O star is 100 times more massive...how much more luminous is the O star?|||Luminosity= T^4


Where T is the temperature


M star= 3,000^4= 8.1 脳 10^13


O star= 30,000^4= 8.1 脳 10^17


8.1 脳 10^17/(8.1 x 10^13) = 10,000


the O star is 10,000 times more Luminous than the M star.

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