Estimation of Mass-Loss Rates for M Giants from UV Emission Line Profiles

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Dec 2001

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American Astronomical Society, 199th AAS Meeting, #92.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.1441

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The photon-scattering winds of M giants produce absorption features in the strong chromospheric emission lines. These provide us with an opportunity to assess important parameters of the wind, including flow and turbulent velocities, the optical depth of the wind above the region of photon creation, and the star's mass-loss rate. We have used the Lamers et al. (1987) Sobolev with Exact Integration (SEI) radiative transfer code, along with simple models of the outer atmospheric structure and wind, to determine the wind characteristics of two M-giant stars, γ Cru (M3.4) and μ Gem (M3IIIab). The SEI code has the advantage of being computationally fast and allows a great number of possible wind models to be examined. The analysis procedure involves specifying wind parameters and then using the program to calculate line profiles for the Mg II (UV1) lines and a range of unblended Fe II lines. These lines have a wide range of wind opacities and therefore probe different heights in the atmosphere. The assumed wind properties are iterated until the predicted profiles match the observations over as many lines as possible. We present estimates of the wind parameters for these stars and offer a comparison to wind properties previously-derived for low-gravity K stars using the same technique.

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