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Freefall timescale for a Jeans-unstable hydrogen cloud of mass M
I'm working on a project (personal, not academic) that involves calculating the collapse timescales for protostars which will end up becoming stars of varying given masses. I'm treating the pre-main ...
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How can pre-main sequence stars radiate more energy than main-sequence stars?
How can a pre-main sequence star radiate more energy by gravitational contraction than a main-sequence star can by hydrogen fusion?