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Multi-line transfer and line blanketing in a clumpy Wolf-Rayet wind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

D. Schaerer
D. Schaerer*
Affiliation:
Geneva Observatory, CH-1290 Sauverny, Switzerland

Abstract

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We present a Wolf-Rayet wind model including clumping, which is assumed to be due to full-scale supersonic compressible turbulence as suggested by Moffat & Robert (1994). It is shown that clumping leads to a larger transfer of radiative to mechanical luminosity, which corresponds to a momentum ratio of (Ṁv∞)/(L/c) = 12 for a typical WN5 star. We also show how clumping reduces the effects of line blanketing in spectral analyses.

Keywords

stars: Wolf-Rayetwindsmass loss
Type
Session II - Model atmospheres for single Wolf-Rayet stars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 163: Wolf-Rayet Stars: Binaries, Colliding Winds, Evolution , 1995 , pp. 168 - 169
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995 

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