The Spectral Energy Distribution and Mass-loss Rate of the A-Type Supergiant Deneb

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2002-01-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0201218v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted by the Astrophysical Journal, 43 pages, 23 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/339740

A stellar wind module has been developed for the PHOENIX stellar atmosphere code for the purpose of computing non-LTE, line-blanketed, expanding atmospheric structures and detailed synthetic spectra of hot luminous stars with winds. We apply the code to observations of Deneb, for which we report the first positive detections of mm and cm emission (obtained using the SCUBA and the VLA), as well a strong upper limit on the 850 micron flux (using the HHT). The slope of the radio spectrum shows that the stellar wind is partially ionized. We report a uniform-disk angular diameter measurement, 2.40 +/- 0.06 mas, from the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer (NPOI). The measured bolometric flux and corrected NPOI angular diameter yield an effective temperature of 8600 +/- 500 K. Least-squares comparisons of synthetic spectral energy distributions from 1220 A to 3.6 cm with the observations provide estimates for the effective temperature and the mass-loss rate of 8400 +/- 100 K and 8 +/- 3 E-7 M_sun/yr, respectively. This range of mass-loss rates is consistent with that derived from high dispersion UV spectra when non-LTE metal-line blanketing is considered. We are unable achieve a reasonable fit to a typical Halpha P-Cygni profile with any model parameters over a reasonable range. This is troubling because the \ha profile is the observational basis for Wind Momentum-Luminosity Relationship.

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