Terminal velocities for a large sample of O stars, B supergiants, and Wolf-Rayet stars

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Oct 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990apj...361..607p&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 361, Oct. 1, 1990, p. 607-620.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

379

B Stars, O Stars, Stellar Motions, Stellar Winds, Terminal Velocity, Wolf-Rayet Stars, Opacity, Supergiant Stars, Velocity Measurement

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It is argued that easily measured, reliable estimates of terminal velocities for early-type stars are provided by the central velocity asymptotically approached by narrow absorption features and by the violet limit of zero residual intensity in saturated P Cygni profiles. These estimators are used to determine terminal velocities, v(infinity), for 181 O stars, 70 early B supergiants, and 35 Wolf-Rayet stars. For OB stars, the values are typically 15-20 percent smaller than the extreme violet edge velocities, v(edge), while for WR stars v(infinity) = 0.76 v(edge) on average. New mass-loss rates for WR stars which are thermal radio emitters are given, taking into account the new terminal velocities and recent revisions to estimates of distances and to the mean nuclear mass per electron. The relationships between v(infinity), the surface escape velocities, and effective temperatures are examined.

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