Bright OB stars in the Galaxy IV. Stellar and wind parameters of early to late B supergiants

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2007-11-07

arxiv.org/abs/0711.1110v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

23 pages and 14 figures accepted for publication in A & A; the Fig. 1 title and the last para of Sec. 4.1 modified; a new refe

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20077919

We apply the NLTE atmosphere code FASTWIND to perform a spectroscopic study of a small sample of Galactic B-supergiants from B0 to B9. By means of the resulting data and incorporating additional datasets from alternative studies, we investigate the properties of OB-supergiants and compare our findings with theoretical predictions. As a result we find that due to the combined effects of line- and wind-blanketing, the temperature scale of Galactic B-supergiants needs to be revised downwards, by 10 to 20 percent, the latter value being appropriate for stronger winds. In fair accordance with recent results, our sample furthermore indicates a gradual decrease in wind terminal velocities over the bi-stability region, where the limits of this region are located at lower temperatures than the predicted ones. Introducing a distance-independent quantity Q' related to wind-strength, we also show that this quantity is a well defined, monotonically increasing function of Teff outside this region. Inside and from hot to cool, the mass loss rate changes by a factor (in between 0.4 and 2.5) which is (much) smaller than the predicted factor of 5. All this indicates that the decrease in wind terminal velocity over the bi-stability region is not over-compensated by an increase of mass loss rate, as frequently argued (provided the wind-clumping properties on both sides of this region do not differ substantially).

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