Testing the predicted mass-loss bi-stability jump at radio wavelengths

Details Testing the predicted mass-loss bi-stability jump at radio wavelengths Testing the predicted mass-loss bi-stability jump at radio wavelengths

2007-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703577v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 13 figures, A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20077139

In this study, we test the theoretically predicted mass-loss behaviour as a function of stellar effective temperature across the so-called `bi-stability' jump (BSJ). We gathered radio observations of 30 OB supergiants (O8-B3). We derived the radio mass-loss rates and wind efficiencies, and compared our results with Halpha mass-loss rates and predictions based on radiation-driven wind models. he wind efficiency shows the possible presence of a local maximum around an effective temperature of 21~000 K -- in qualitative agreement with predictions. We also find that the radio mass-loss rates show good agreement with empirical Halpha rates. However, the empirical mass-loss rates are larger than the predicted rates from radiation-driven wind theory for objects above the BSJ temperature, whilst they are smaller for the rest. A new wind momenta-luminosity relation for O8-B0 stars has been derived.

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