Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 1976
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976apj...209..800s&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, vol. 209, Nov. 1, 1976, pt. 1, p. 800-815.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
48
Binary Stars, Early Stars, Main Sequence Stars, Stellar Models, B Stars, Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram, Hot Stars, Hydrogen, O Stars, Supergiant Stars, Wolf-Rayet Stars
Scientific paper
A major revision of current theoretical ideas about the brightest blue stars must be made if Carson's (1976) radiative opacities are adopted in stellar models. Unlike earlier opacities, these exhibit a large 'bump' due to CNO ionization, which leads to very strong central condensation, convective instability, and pulsational instability in hot diffuse stellar envelopes. Despite a number of theoretical uncertainties, the new picture of the structure of very luminous stars is reasonably successful in accounting for a variety of previously unexplained observations. The stellar models for the phase of core hydrogen burning predict large radii and rather cool effective temperatures for O stars and a spreading out of the main-sequence band in the H-R diagram toward luminous cool supergiants for masses higher than about 20 solar masses. In massive X-ray binary systems, circular orbits and supergiant-like visual companions are expected to be quite common. Long-period variability is predicted to exist for massive blue supergiants of luminosity class Ia. The models for helium stars predict large radii and rather cool effective temperatures for Wolf-Rayet stars, as well as multimodal pulsational instability and, possibly, surface turbulence for these stars.
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