A Porosity‐Length Formalism for Photon‐Tiring–limited Mass Loss from Stars above the Eddington Limit
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/424910