Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1985
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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 299, Dec. 1, 1985, p. 265-276.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
97
Electromagnetic Scattering, Radiative Transfer, Stellar Winds, Limb Darkening, Optical Thickness, Perturbation Theory, Transfer Functions, Wave Dispersion
Scientific paper
An earlier analysis (Owocki and Rybicki) of the linear instability of line-driven stellar winds is extended to take proper account of the dynamical effect of scattered radiation. The principal findings are as follows: (1) the drag effect of the mean scattered radiation does indeed greatly reduce the contribution of scattering lines to the instability at the very base of the wind, but the instability growth rate associated with such lines rapidly increases as the flow moves outward from the base, reaching more than 50 percent of the growth rate for pure absorption lines within a stellar radius of the surface, and eventually reaching 80 percent of that rate at large radii; (2) perturbations in the scattered radiation field may be important for the propagation of wind disturbances, but they have little effect on the wind instability; (3) the contribution of a strongly shadowed line to the wind instability is often reduced compared to that of an unshadowed line, but its effect is not one of damping in the outer parts of the wind. The primary conclusion derived from these results is thus that, even when all scattering effects are taken into account, the bulk of the flow in a line-driven stellar wind is still highly unstable.
Owocki Stanley P.
Rybicki George B.
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