Abstract
We determine the effect of rotation on the luminosity of supermassive stars. We apply the Roche model to calculate analytically the emitted radiation from a uniformly rotating, radiation-dominated supermassive configuration. We find that the luminosity at maximum rotation, when mass at the equator orbits at the Kepler period, is reduced by ~36% below the usual Eddington luminosity from a corresponding nonrotating star. A supermassive star is believed to evolve in a quasi-stationary manner along such a maximally rotating "mass-shedding" sequence before reaching the point of dynamical instability; hence this reduced luminosity determines the evolutionary timescale. Our result therefore implies that the lifetime of a supermassive star prior to dynamical collapse is ~36% longer than the value typically estimated by employing the usual Eddington luminosity.
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