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| author | Bashan Nadav |
| author_facet | Bashan Nadav |
| contents | <p>Using a benchmark sample of 190 stellar components in detached eclipsing binary systems, we examine whether independently measured surface observables—luminosity, radius, mass, surface gravity, and effective temperature—satisfy a closure condition at the photospheric boundary.</p> <p>We evaluate the combination directly from these measurements. When radiative, gravitational, and geometric effects jointly balance at a stable photospheric boundary, this combination reduces algebraically to the constant scale .</p> <p>The ratio is found to remain invariant across the full stellar mass range of the sample, with a mean value of 0.996585 and a dispersion of 0.001293. No dependence on stellar mass is observed. In Planck units, corresponds to the geometric realization of equilibrium photon statistics at a radiating boundary.</p> |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | An Empirical Photospheric Boundary Closure Relation from Detached Eclipsing Binaries Bashan Nadav <p>Using a benchmark sample of 190 stellar components in detached eclipsing binary systems, we examine whether independently measured surface observables—luminosity, radius, mass, surface gravity, and effective temperature—satisfy a closure condition at the photospheric boundary.</p> <p>We evaluate the combination directly from these measurements. When radiative, gravitational, and geometric effects jointly balance at a stable photospheric boundary, this combination reduces algebraically to the constant scale .</p> <p>The ratio is found to remain invariant across the full stellar mass range of the sample, with a mean value of 0.996585 and a dispersion of 0.001293. No dependence on stellar mass is observed. In Planck units, corresponds to the geometric realization of equilibrium photon statistics at a radiating boundary.</p> |
| title | An Empirical Photospheric Boundary Closure Relation from Detached Eclipsing Binaries |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18226406 |