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How do I find the luminosity of a star as it evolves through its entire lifetime
I am really confused on how to estimate the luminosity of a made-up star through its lifetime, like say a star with the mass of 0.902 suns, how would I find the luminosity of it say, 6.5 billion years ...
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What is going on with this (sub?) brown dwarf WISEPA J174124.26+255319.5?
In this Wikipedia article, it details about a T9 class brown dwarf named WISEPA J174124.26+255319.5.
Apparently, this brown dwarf has 0.95 Jupiter masses, and 0.4 Jupiter radii (with rather low error)...