Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-08-30
AIP Conf.Proc.990:250-253,2008
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
to be published in the conference proceedings of: First Stars III, Santa Fe, 2007
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2905555
Continuum driving is an effective method to drive a strong stellar wind. It is governed by two limits: the Eddington limit and the photon-tiring limit. A star must exceed the effective Eddington limit for continuum driving to overcome the stellar gravity. The photon-tiring limit places an upper limit on the mass loss rate that can be driven to infinity, given the energy available in the radiation field of the star. Since continuum driving does not require the presence of metals in the stellar atmosphere it is particularly suited to removing mass from low- and zero-metallicity stars and can play a crucial part in their evolution. Using a porosity length formalism we compute numerical simulations of super-Eddington, continuum driven winds to explore their behaviour for stars both below and above the photon-tiring limit. We find that below the photon tiring limit, continuum driving can produce a large, steady mass loss rate at velocities on the order of the escape velocity. If the star exceeds the photon-tiring limit, a steady solution is no longer possible. While the effective mass loss rate is still very large, the wind velocity is much smaller
Owocki Stanley P.
Shaviv Nir J.
van Marle Allard Jan
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