The Effects of Alfven Waves and Radiation Pressure in Dust Winds of Late-type Stars

Details The Effects of Alfven Waves and Radiation Pressure in Dust Winds of Late-type Stars The Effects of Alfven Waves and Radiation Pressure in Dust Winds of Late-type Stars

2002-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207342v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figures, accepted in ApJ (Sep, 2002)

Scientific paper

10.1086/341794

In the present study, we analyze the effects of a flux of Alfven waves acting together with radiation pressure on grains as an acceleration mechanism of the wind of late-type stars. In the wind model we simulate the presence of grains through a strong damping of the waves, we used a non-isothermal profile for temperature, coherent with grain formation theories. We examine the changes in the velocity profile of the wind and we show that if the grains are created in the region 1.1 < r/r_0 < 2.0 their presence will affect the mass loss and terminal velocity. The model is applied to a K5 supergiant star and for Betelgeuse (alpha Ori).

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