Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-12-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Accepted by A&A; 6 pages, 5 figures; minor changes from v1
Scientific paper
In an attempt to understand the extraordinarily small mass-loss rates of late-type O dwarfs, mass fluxes in the relevant part of (T_{eff}, g)-space are derived from first principles using a previously-described code for constructing moving reversing layers. From these mass fluxes, a weak-wind domain is identified within which a star's rate of mass loss by a radiatively-driven wind is less than that due to nuclear burning. The five weak-wind stars recently analysed by Marcolino et al. (2009) fall within or at the edge of this domain. But although the theoretical mass fluxes for these stars are ~ 1.4 dex lower than those derived with the formula of Vink et al. (2000), the observed rates are still not matched, a failure that may reflect our poor understanding of low-density supersonic outflows. Mass fluxes are also computed for two strong-wind O4 stars analysed by Bouret et al. (2005). The predictions agree with the sharply reduced mass loss rates found when Bouret et al. take wind clumping into account.
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