Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-07-09
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 2 figures, to be published in ASP Conference Series, Vol.392, p.95
Scientific paper
The effects of gravitational settling and radiative levitation in the stellar atmospheres and envelopes of subdwarf B (sdB) stars strongly depend on the presence of weak winds. In the paper the existence of weak radiatively driven winds is investigated from a theoretical point of view for sdB stars of half a solar mass, effective temperatures between 25000 K and 35000 K, and surface gravities log g between about 5.0 and 6.0 (cgs units). According to the results, weak winds with mass-loss rates of the order E-11 solar masses per year may exist only for the most luminous sdB stars. For the more compact ones, the decoupling of the metals from the bulk matter (hydrogen and helium) is expected in the wind region, because the momentum exchange via Coulomb collisions is not effective enough. Thus multicomponent effects are of great importance. We suggest that only the metals may be expelled from the star, whereas hydrogen and helium are in hydrostatic equilibrium.
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