Radiation-driven acceleration in photospheres of nonaccreting magnetic white dwarfs

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Feb 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994apjs...90..783z&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ISSN 0067-0049), vol. 90, no. 2, p. 783-787

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Radiative Transfer, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Magnetic Fields, White Dwarf Stars, Black Body Radiation, Cyclotron Radiation, Magnetic Dipoles, Plasma Density, Radiation Pressure, Stellar Luminosity, Ultraviolet Spectra

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Radiation transfer in a pure hydrogen, fully ionized, isothermal photosphere of an isolated white dwarf with dipole magnetic field is considered, and the radiation pressure force, both in the continuum and in the cyclotron line, is determined with the line saturation effect taken into account. It is shown that the magnetic field can reduce the critical luminosity for white dwarfs. This leads to the possibility of photospheric plasma ejection driven by the radiation in the cyclotron line and the formation of radiation-driven winds from sufficiently hot isolated magnetic white dwarfs. It is shown that cyclotron radiation pressure plays a significant role in the force balance of the photospheres of the magnetic white dwarfs GD 229, GrW +70 deg 8247, and PG 1031+234. The strong unidentified depression in the UV spectrum of GD 229 is attributed to cyclotron scattering by the radiation-driven plasma envelope with density N is greater than or approximately 108/cu cm.

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