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What would be the most reliable way to measure the mass of a star for which the distance is unknown?



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apply the mass-temperature relation



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measure its orbit around another star



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measure its radius, then compute its volume and multiply by density to get the mass



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compute its spectroscopic parallax, then apply the mass-luminosity relation

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