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The Link between Radiation-Driven Winds and Pulsation in Massive Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

S.P. Owocki
Affiliation:
Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716USA; owocki@bartol.udel.edu
S.R. Cranmer
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138USA; scranmer@cfa.harvard.edu

Abstract

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Hot, luminous, massive stars have strong stellar winds driven by line-scattering of the star’s continuum radiation. They are also often observed to exhibit radial or non-radial pulsations. Such pulsations are possible candidates for providing the base perturbations that induce large-scale structure in the overlying wind, and as such they could help explain various observational manifestions of wind variability, e.g., absorption enhancemens or modulations in UV P-Cygni lines of OB stars, and perhaps even moving bumps in optical emission lines of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars. Here we review the physics of line driving, with emphasis on how perturbations induce variations in a wind outflow. In particular, we present results of a time-dependent dynamical simulation of wind variations induced by the radial pulsation of the β Cep variable BW Vulpeculae, and show that observed variability in UV wind lines can be quite well reproduced by synthetic line profiles for this model. We conclude with a discussion of recent evidence that resonances among multiple modes of non-radial pulsation in Be stars play a role in inducing mass ejections that contribute to formation of a circumstellar disk.

Type
Part 5. Mass Loss in Pulsating Stars
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002

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