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How could lithium burning take place in a quasi-star?
If present, lithium is burned at lower temperatures than hydrogen (protium), although at higher temperatures than deuterium. See Why does lithium fuse at lower temperatures than hydrogen?
The ...
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How did the temperature of the solar system evolve?
There is no "nuclear flash". The approach to a stable, hydrogen-burning star is rather smooth and in fact the Sun was more luminous during its first few million years as a protostar than it ...
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Is there a formula for calculating surface temperature of a rocky world based on atmosphere and solar input?
Guillot et al. 2010 give a comparatively simple solution (their Eqn. 27) for a double-gray purely radiative atmosphere. It reproduces the equilibrium temperature in the optically thin limit.
Robinson &...
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