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O stars with weak winds: the Galactic case | | Fabrice Martins
; Daniel Schaerer
; John Hillier
; Frederic Meynadier
; Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri
; Nolan Walborn
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12 Jul 2005 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Abstract: | We study the stellar and wind properties of a sample of Galactic O dwarfs to track the conditions under which weak winds (i.e mass loss rates lower than ~ 1e-8 Msol/yr) appear. The sample is composed of low and high luminosity dwarfs including Vz stars and stars known to display qualitatively weak winds. Atmosphere models including non-LTE treatment, spherical expansion and line blanketing are computed with the code CMFGEN. Both UV and Ha lines are used to derive wind properties while optical H and He lines give the stellar parameters. Mass loss rates of all stars are found to be lower than expected from the hydrodynamical predictions of Vink et al. (2001). For stars with log L/Lsol > 5.2, the reduction is by less than a factor 5 and is mainly due to the inclusion of clumping in the models. For stars with log L/Lsol < 5.2 the reduction can be as high as a factor 100. The inclusion of X-ray emission in models with low density is crucial to derive accurate mass loss rates from UV lines. The modified wind momentum - luminosity relation shows a significant change of slope around this transition luminosity. Terminal velocities of low luminosity stars are also found to be low. The physical reason for such weak winds is still not clear although the finding of weak winds in Galactic stars excludes the role of a reduced metallicity. X-rays, through the change in the ionisation structure they imply, may be at the origin of a reduction of the radiative acceleration, leading to lower mass loss rates. A better understanding of the origin of X-rays is of crucial importance for the study of the physics of weak winds. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0507278 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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