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X-ray line profiles from structured stellar winds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Lidia M. Oskinova
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl Astrophysik, Institut für Physik, Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, D-14469 Potsdam, BRD
Achim Feldmeier
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl Astrophysik, Institut für Physik, Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, D-14469 Potsdam, BRD
Wolf-Rainer Hamann
Affiliation:
Lehrstuhl Astrophysik, Institut für Physik, Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, D-14469 Potsdam, BRD

Abstract

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Absorbing material compressed in a number of thin shells is effectively less opaque for X-rays than smoothly distributed gas. The calculated X-ray emission-line profiles are red-shifted if the emission arises from the starward side of the shells.

Type
Part 1. Atmospheres of Massive Stars
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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