Talk:L1551 IRS 5
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There have been a couple of edits on this page and on List of largest stars about this star having a radius of 10,600 R☉. This is clearly unacceptable and will never be as stars can not have radii over ~2,544 R☉ and because you can't just make random numbers at the top of your head and say that is the star's real size. The large size has a ref: [1] but it clearly isn't a reliable source because of the fake numbers used there and has no based citations. Therefore, that site and number are obsolete. It is possible that 10,600 R☉ is the radius of the protostar dust cloud, not the star itself. The star itself has a «real» radius of 0.212 R☉. The value is verifiable but I can't find a source for it. --Joey P. - THE OFFICIAL (talk) 21:23, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
Stellar Masses
[edit]The stellar masses given in this article are wrong. The given stellar masses are to L1551 NE, wich is another binary star in the same cloud. The stellar mass of the L1551 IRS5 system has been estimated to be between 1.0 M_Sun (Rodriguez et al. 2003) and 1.9 M_Sun (Villa et al. 2017). 134.104.28.75 (talk) 15:08, 23 May 2023 (UTC)