Stellar Masses cont.

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There is a pretty ``steep'' relationship between Mass and Luminosity in the sense that more massive stars are more luminous. For the main sequence:

The Main-sequence in the H-R Diagram is a Mass sequence! For each position along the main sequence there is a corresponding stellar mass.

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Michael Bolte
Thu Jan 29 09:33:26 PST 1998