Nonlocal radiative coupling in non monotonic stellar winds

Details Nonlocal radiative coupling in non monotonic stellar winds Nonlocal radiative coupling in non monotonic stellar winds

2005-10-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510806v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted by A&A, 8 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20053380

There is strong observational evidence of shocks and clumping in radiation-driven stellar winds from hot, luminous stars. The resulting non monotonic velocity law allows for radiative coupling between distant locations, which is so far not accounted for in hydrodynamic wind simulations. In the present paper, we determine the Sobolev source function and radiative line force in the presence of radiative coupling in spherically symmetric flows, extending the geometry-free formalism of Rybicki and Hummer (1978) to the case of three-point coupling, which can result from, e.g., corotating interaction regions, wind shocks, or mass overloading. For a simple model of an overloaded wind, we find that, surprisingly, the flow decelerates at all radii above a certain height when nonlocal radiative coupling is accounted for. We discuss whether radiation-driven winds might in general not be able to re-accelerate after a non monotonicity has occurred in the velocity law.

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