A general upper limit on the mass and entropy production of a cluster of supermassive objects

dc.contributor.author	Sivaram, C
dc.date.accessioned	2008-10-27T15:23:50Z
dc.date.available	2008-10-27T15:23:50Z
dc.date.issued	1982-09
dc.identifier.citation	Astrophysics and Space Science, Vol. 86, No. 2, pp. 501 - 504	en
dc.identifier.issn	0004-640X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2248/3987
dc.description	Open Access
dc.description.abstract	A general upper limit is obtained on the mass of a cluster of pregalactic supermassive stars, along with the entropy of the radiation they produce, in view of the suggestion that they account for some or even all of the blackbody cosmic radiation in whose 3 K spectrum a distortion has recently been found. It is noted that the equations for the critical mass and radius of the cluster lead to results which compare well with the mass and radius of the universe.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Springer	en
dc.relation.uri	http://www.springerlink.com/content/l544q284713p7860/	en
dc.subject	Black Body Radiation	en
dc.subject	Cosmic Rays	en
dc.subject	Entropy	en
dc.subject	Star Clusters	en
dc.subject	Stellar Mass	en
dc.subject	Supermassive Stars	en
dc.subject	Background Radiation	en
dc.subject	Luminosity	en
dc.subject	Universe	en
dc.title	A general upper limit on the mass and entropy production of a cluster of supermassive objects	en
dc.type	Article	en