"So this is about two orders of magnitudes away, which means the effect will be two orders of magnitude lesser."
Inverse square applies here; moving 100 times farther away makes the effect 10,000 times less.
(I have to say it "applies here" because people sometimes overapply the law. It only applies when something is spreading out in an even sphere. However, that applies to supernovae, or at least close enough.)
You're right that I neglected gamma ray bursts. But it also doesn't seem like this star could be building up to that, since it requires conditions not evident there. (I'm just following up on my point, not implying that you claimed otherwise.)
Inverse square applies here; moving 100 times farther away makes the effect 10,000 times less.
(I have to say it "applies here" because people sometimes overapply the law. It only applies when something is spreading out in an even sphere. However, that applies to supernovae, or at least close enough.)
You're right that I neglected gamma ray bursts. But it also doesn't seem like this star could be building up to that, since it requires conditions not evident there. (I'm just following up on my point, not implying that you claimed otherwise.)