Analytical solutions for radiation-driven winds in massive stars - II: The δ-slow regime

Accurate mass-loss rates and terminal velocities from massive stars winds are essential to obtain synthetic spectra from radiative transfer calculations and to determine the evolutionary path of massive stars. From a theoretical point of view, analytical expressions for the wind parameters and veloc...

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Autores: Araya, I., Christen, A., Cure, M., Cidale, Lydia Sonia, Venero, Roberto Oscar José, Arcos, C., Gormaz Matamala, A., Haucke, Maximiliano, Escarate, P., Clavería, H.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/145376
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/145376
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:HYDRODYNAMICS
METHODS: ANALYTICAL
STARS: EARLY-TYPE
STARS: MASS-LOSS
STARS: WINDS, OUTFLOWS
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Sumario:Accurate mass-loss rates and terminal velocities from massive stars winds are essential to obtain synthetic spectra from radiative transfer calculations and to determine the evolutionary path of massive stars. From a theoretical point of view, analytical expressions for the wind parameters and velocity profile would have many advantages over numerical calculations that solve the complex non-linear set of hydrodynamic equations. In a previous work, we obtained an analytical description for the fast wind regime. Now, we propose an approximate expression for the line-force in terms of new parameters and obtain a velocity profile closed-form solution (in terms of the Lambert W function) for the δ-slow regime. Using this analytical velocity profile, we were able to obtain the mass-loss rates based on the m-CAK theory. Moreover, we established a relation between this new set of line-force parameters with the known stellar and m-CAK line-force parameters. To this purpose, we calculated a grid of numerical hydrodynamical models and performed a multivariate multiple regression. The numerical and our descriptions lead to good agreement between their values.