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3D hydrodynamical simulations to interpret observations of stellar surfaces of red supergiant stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2013

A. Chiavassa ,
B. Freytag  and
B. Plez
A. Chiavassa
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Lagrange, UMR 7293, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, BP. 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France
B. Freytag
Affiliation:
Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon, UMR 5574, CNRS, Université de Lyon, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 allée d’Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
B. Plez
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier, Université Montpellier II, CNRS, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
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Abstract

As red supergiants are the largest and brightest stars, they are ideal targets for the new generation of sensitive, high resolution instrumentation that provides spectrophotometric, interferometric, astrometric, and imaging observables. The interpretation of the complex stellar surface images requires numerical simulations of stellar convection that take into account multi-dimensional time-dependent radiation hydrodynamics with realistic input physics. We show the results obtained with the synergy between the radiative hydrodynamics code CO5BOLD and the post-processing radiative transfer code Optim3D. Such simulations support a proper and quantitative analysis of these observations, and the observations provide the theoretical work with strong constraints.

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Research Article
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European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 60: Betelgeuse Workshop 2012 The Physics of Red Supergiants: Recent Advances and Open Questions , 2013 , pp. 145 - 153
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© EAS, EDP Sciences 2013

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