Betelgeuse, a bright red star in the constellation Orion, has a luminosity that is 100,000 times that of the Sun. However, the surface temperature of Betelgeuse is only 3000 K. Assuming that the emissivity of stars is 1, What is the radius of Betelgeuse?

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Betelgeuse, a bright red star in the constellation Orion, has a luminosity that is 100,000 times that of the Sun. However, the surface temperature of Betelgeuse is only 3000 K. Assuming that the emissivity of stars is 1, What is the radius of Betelgeuse?

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Luminosity of the sun is 3.916×1026 WBetelguese has a luminosity, 100000×3.916×1026=3.916×1031 W

The flux emitted by a star is defined as the energy emitted per unit area and is given in terms of temperature asF=σT4σ is Stefan-Boltzmann constant=5.67×10-8 W/m2K4T is the temperatureSo, F=5.67×10-8×(3000)4 F=5.67×10-8×8.1×1013F=4.5927×106 W/m2

This is the amount of flux emitted by the star for a surface temperature of 3000 K

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