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Fig. 5

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Radii of the escape sphere and the Eddington capture sphere as a function of the stellar luminosity (R = 5). The two spheres coincide at the critical value of k = 1.45, or L = 0.873   LEdd, corresponding to rEdd = 8.40.

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