Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Feb 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980ap%26ss..67..285s&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 67, no. 2, Feb. 1980, p. 285-307.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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B Stars, Early Stars, O Stars, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Envelopes, Ultraviolet Spectroscopy, Atmospheric Models, Chromosphere, Cool Stars, Oao 3, Radiation Pressure, Spaceborne Astronomy, Stellar Models, Stellar Spectra, Stellar Winds, Ultraviolet Astronomy, Ultraviolet Spectra
Scientific paper
Ultraviolet observations of the extended atmospheres and circumstellar envelopes of early-type and cool stars are reviewed. UV spectra of OB stars have shown that mass loss occurs in virtually all these stars and in many Be stars, and the Copernicus satellite has also provided information on the physical conditions and variability of the winds. The winds have been interpreted in terms of hot coronal wind models, imperfect flow models and radiation pressure models, and estimates of mass loss ranging from 10 to the -10th to 9 x 10 to the -6th solar masses/year have been obtained. Further UV data of faint stars, additional wavelengths and time variability are required. Recent UV and X-ray experiments have detected stellar chromospheres, transition regions coronas and winds in cool stars. Semiempirical line-profile and line-flux models and purely theoretical atmospheric models have been constructed to explain chromosphere, corona and wind data, and future observations of the physical properties of stellar chromospheres, coronas and winds, terms in the energy balance equation, stellar activity and its long-term variability and atmospheric modifications due to the presence of companion stars are proposed for such missions as Spacelab.
Linsky Jeffrey L.
Snow P. Jr. Th.
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