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Super-massive stars: Radiative transfer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2003

P. Amaro-Seoane
Affiliation:
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Mönchhofstraße 12-14, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
R. Spurzem
Affiliation:
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Mönchhofstraße 12-14, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
A. Just
Affiliation:
Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Mönchhofstraße 12-14, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Abstract

The concept of central super-massive stars (${\cal M} \ge 5 \times 10^4 M_{\odot}$, where ${\cal M}$ is the mass of the super-massive star) embedded in dense stellar systems was suggested as a possible explanation for high- energy emissions phenomena occurring in active galactic nuclei and quasars (Vilkoviski 1976; Hara 1978), such as X-ray emissions (Bahcall & Ostriker 1975). SMSs and super-massive black holes are two possibilities to explain the nature of super-massive central objects, and super-massive stars may be an intermediate step towards the formation of super-massive black holes (Rees 1984). Therefore it is important to study such a dense gas-star system in detail. We address here the implementation of radiative transfer in a model which was presented in former work (Amaro-Seoane & Spurzem 2001; Amaro-Seoane et al. 2002). In this sense, we extend here and improve the work done by Langbein et al. (1990) by describing the radiative transfer in super-massive stars using previous work on this subject (Castor 1972).

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Research Article
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© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2003

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