Radiatively Driven Winds of OB Stars - from Micro to Macro
| Title in English | Radiatively Driven Winds of OB Stars -- from Micro to Macro |
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Active OB-Stars: Laboratories For Stellar and Circumstellar Physics |
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| Web | http://www.aspbooks.org/custom/publications/paper/index.phtml?paper_id=3935 |
| Field | Astronomy and astrophysics |
| Keywords | stars: winds; stars:outflows; stars: mass-loss; stars: early-type |
| Description | We review basic physics of line-driven stellar winds of OB stars. We discuss elementary processes due to which stellar winds are accelerated on a microscopic level. We show how these microscopic processes may enable the outflow and how they determine wind properties on a macroscopic level. We discuss shortcomings of present wind theories and future wind model improvements. |
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