Photon Bubbles in Young Massive Stars
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Spectroscopic studies indicate that gas in the photospheres of young O stars moves at speeds up to the sound speed. We show, using two-dimensional radiation MHD calculations and results from a local linear analysis, that the motions may be due to photon bubble instability if young O stars have magnetic fields.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0404004,
title = {Photon Bubbles in Young Massive Stars},
author = {N. J. Turner and H. W. Yorke and A. Socrates and O. M. Blaes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0404004},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures; to appear in "Gravitational Collapse: from Massive Stars to Planets", eds G. Garcia-Segura, G. Tenorio-Tagle, H. Yorke and J. Franco, Rev. Mex. A. A. S. C