Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993a%26a...279..457p&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 279, no. 2, p. 457-476
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
60
Dynamic Models, Hot Stars, Radiative Transfer, Resonance Lines, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Models, Stellar Winds, Ultraviolet Spectra, Absorption Spectra, Mathematical Models, Sobolev Space
Scientific paper
We examine basic issues involved in synthesizing resonance-line profiles from 1-D, dynamical models of highly structured hot-star winds. Although these models exhibit extensive variations in density as well as velocity, the density scale length is still typically much greater than the Sobolev length. The line transfer is thus treated using a Sobolev approach, as generalized by Rybicki & Hummer (1978) to take proper account of the multiple Sobolev resonances arising from the nonmonotonic velocity field. The resulting reduced-lambda-matrix equation describing nonlocal coupling of the source function is solved by iteration, and line profiles are then derived from formal solution integration using this source function. Two more approximate methods that instead use either a stationary or a structured, local source function yield qualitatively similar line-profiles, but are found to violate photon conservation by 10% or more. The full results suggest that such models may indeed be able to reproduce naturally some of the qualitative properties long noted in observed UV line profiles, such as discrete absorption components in unsaturated lines, or the blue-edge variability in saturated lines. However, these particular models do not yet produce the black absorption troughs commonly observed in saturated lines, and it seems that this and other important discrepancies (e.g., in acceleration time scale of absorption components) may require development of more complete models that include rotation and other 2-D and/or 3-D effects.
Fullerton Alex W.
Owocki Stanley P.
Puls Jason
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