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Thermal and Continuum Driven Convection in B-Stars
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
Two regions of convective instability are present in the photosphere of a typical B-star (Teff = 30,000 K Log g = 4.0). One is the usual thermal instability caused by the helium ionization. The other is driven by the continuum radiation pressure in a thermally stable layer. Mixing length and anelastic modal representations of these unstable regions show that the rapid radiative cooling of temperature fluctuations limits the velocities to an amplitude of a few meters per second, much too small to account for the observed line broadening and asymmetries.
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