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recent work...

OK,

you're up with recent work.

A summary for those who aren't...

1) 13.8 Mj is still ~the limit for a brief D-burning star

2) smaller stars, even down to our own Jupiter may have fully 5-10% of their heat budget supplied by "minor" D-burning.

3 This "minor" D-burning is really important to planetary heat budget and internal structure...

4) ...but does not make a "planet" into a "star".

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