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Wikipedia says the Wolf-Rayet star WR124 is 44,700 degrees, and is 562,000 times brighter than our sun. But the Stefan-Boltzmann Law says luminosity per sq meter is proportional to the temperature $T^4$. It's about 8 times hotter than Sol, so the luminosity/sq-m should be 4096 times the Sun's.

And, it has a radius 12x bigger than the Sun, so $4\pi R^2$ (the surface area) times 4096 (luminosity per sq. meter) - which puts the total luminosity at many millions that of the sun.

So why is it only 562,000 times the sun?

Thanks, Jack

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It's 7.7 times the absolute temperature of the Sun and if it is 12 times the radius.

The luminosity will therefore be $(7.7)^4\times 12^2 = 515000$ times that of the Sun.

Close enough, given you haven't cited a source or uncertainty for the temperature or radius.

Your mistake appears to be multiplying by an additional factor of $4\pi$ when that factor applies to the Sun too.

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