How large can a star be?

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1986
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Ó Murchadha, Niall
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In a recent article Schoen and Yau develop an inequality which shows that there exists a relationship between the minimum energy density ρ0 in a star and the size R of the star, of the form ρ0R2≤π6. This article shows that this inequality is valid for two different measures of the size of the star and conjectures that the inequality can be improved to ρ0R2≤3π32.
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Star , Energy density
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O'Murchadha, N. (1986) 'How large can a star be?', Physical Review Letters, 57(19), 2466-2469 (4pp). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.2466
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© 1986, American Physical Society