English

Analytical Solutions for Radiation-Driven Winds in Massive Stars II: The $\delta$-slow Regime

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2021-04-21 v1

Abstract

Accurate mass-loss rates and terminal velocities from massive stars winds are essential to obtain synthetic spectra from radiative transfer calculations and to determine the evolutionary path of massive stars. From a theoretical point of view, analytical expressions for the wind parameters and velocity profile would have many advantages over numerical calculations that solve the complex non-linear set of hydrodynamic equations. In a previous work, we obtained an analytical description for the fast wind regime. Now, we propose an approximate expression for the line-force in terms of new parameters and obtain a velocity profile closed-form solution (in terms of the Lambert WW function) for the δ\delta-slow regime. Using this analytical velocity profile, we were able to obtain the mass-loss rates based on the m-CAK theory. Moreover, we established a relation between this new set of line-force parameters with the known stellar and m-CAK line-force parameters. To this purpose, we calculated a grid of numerical hydrodynamical models and performed a multivariate multiple regression. The numerical and our descriptions lead to good agreement between their values.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.03263,
  title  = {Analytical Solutions for Radiation-Driven Winds in Massive Stars II: The $\delta$-slow Regime},
  author = {I. Araya and A. Christen and M. Curé and L. S. Cidale and R. O. J. Venero and C. Arcos and A. C. Gormaz-Matamala and M. Haucke and P. Escárate and H. Clavería},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.03263},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

8 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in MNRAS