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The dependence of the stellar rate of mass loss on effective temperature and velocity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

C. de Jager
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory and Laboratory for Space Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
H. Nieuwenhuijzen
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory and Laboratory for Space Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
K.A. van der Hucht
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory and Laboratory for Space Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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From the existing literature data have been collected on the stellar rate of mass loss for 189 stars with known or derived values of the effective temperature Teff and luminosity L. It appears that Ṁ depends only on Teff and L for the O- through M-type stars brighter that about 3 × 103 L. This is shown in Figure 1, where we have plotted for each star the value of - log(-Ṁ) with Ṁ expressed in solar masses per year. An interpolation formula has been derived for the Ṁ(Teff, L) dependence. If we define X = log Teff-4, and Y = log(L/L-5, then

Type
Poster Papers - Sessions 1 and 2
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

References

De Jager, C., Nieuwenhuijzen, H., and van der Hucht, K.A., 1985, Astron. and Astrophys., submitted Google Scholar