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Image: ChandrasekharLimitGraph

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Description: Graph plotting the radius (in standard solar radii) against the mass (in standard solar masses) for a model white dwarf star consisting of a cold Fermi gas. The blue curve shows a nonrelativistic model and the green curve a relativistic model. The molecular weight per electron has been taken to be 2. "MCh" denotes the Chandrasekhar mass limit. See:
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