A Superwind from Early Post-Red Giant Stars?

Details A Superwind from Early Post-Red Giant Stars? A Superwind from Early Post-Red Giant Stars?

2001-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111295v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages; Accepted by ApJ Letters; Available also at http://www.astro.puc.cl/~mcatelan/

Scientific paper

10.1086/338443

We suggest that the gap observed at 20,000 K in the horizontal branches of several Galactic globular clusters is caused by a small amount of extra mass loss which occurs when stars start to "peel off" the red giant branch (RGB), i.e., when their effective temperature starts to increase, even though they may still be on the RGB. We show that the envelope structure of RGB stars which start to peel off is similar to that of late asymptotic giant branch stars known to have a super-wind phase. An analogous super-wind in the RGB peel-off stars could easily lead to the observed gap in the distribution of the hottest HB stars.

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