The Statistical Sobolev-Rosseland Mean and the Effects of Frequency Redistribution on Wolf-Rayet Wind Driving

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Jun 2003

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The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 590, Issue 1, pp. 473-482.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Radiative Transfer, Stars: Winds, Outflows, Stars: Wolf-Rayet

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The optically thick character of Wolf-Rayet winds implies that stellar continuum photons are multiply scattered, as a result of both free electron opacity and overlapping wind-broadened spectral lines. This allows the wind to accumulate a substantial excess in momentum flux relative to the driving radiation field, as is observationally required. Nevertheless, sustaining such a high degree of multiple scattering requires not only a large optical depth spatially but also substantial spectral blanketing. The latter is difficult to maintain when redistribution during scattering allows radiative flux to shift preferentially into spectral regions with fewer lines, since then the channels carrying much of the flux are also the least well blanketed. This paper parameterizes the potential severity of this effect in simple terms, using a generalization of the Rosseland mean treated in the Sobolev approximation. We show that our approach provides an informative starting point for characterizing and conceptualizing nongray effects in optically thick supersonic flows.

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