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Radiatively-driven winds: Model improvements, ionization balance and the infrared spectrum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

John I. Castor
John I. Castor*
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado and National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, CO 80309

Abstract

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Recent improvements to theoretical stellar wind models and the results of empirical modelling of the ionization balance and the infrared continuum are discussed. The model of a wind driven by radiation pressure in spectral lines is improved by accounting for overlap of the driving lines, dependence of ionization balance on density, and stellar rotation. These effects produce a softer velocity law than that given by Castor, Abbott and Klein (1975). The ionization balance in ζ Puppis is shown to agree with that estimated for an optically thick wind at a gas temperature of 60,000 K. The ionization model is not unique. The infrared continuum of ζ Pup measured by Barlow and Cohen is fitted to a cool model with a linear rise of velocity with radius; this fit is also not unique. It is concluded we should try to find a model that fits several kinds of evidence simultaneously.

Type
Session 4: Panel Discussion on Stellar Wind Theories
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 83: Mass Loss and Evolution of O-Type Stars , 1979 , pp. 175 - 190
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1979 

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