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How to predict the radius of a Red giant
Further to the comment by astrosnapper, you might want to play around with EZ-Web (easier):
http://user.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/static.php?ref=ez-web
...or MESA-Web (more sophisticated):
http://user....
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How to predict the radius of a Red giant
In general we calculate a Red Giant will have ten or more times the radius of the main sequence star (depending which scientists you want to believe) I don't think we have the math yet to work it out ...
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