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A simple model for a radiatively driven metallic wind in A0 stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

J. Babel*
Affiliation:
Service d'Astrophysique, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Abstract

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Litle is known about the wind of main sequence A7 to B4 stars. We here investigate the case of a radiatively driven wind for an A0 star and obtain stringent limits on the mass loss rate. We also show that frictional heating lead to the presence of a chromospheric region very near the photosphere.

Type
7. OB Stellar Winds
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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