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Terminal wind velocity and mass loss rate are the most fundamental parameters of stellar winds. Unfortunately, their determination calls for high resolution spectroscopy in a range of wavelengths spanning from the ultraviolet to the…
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Clumping in stellar winds of hot stars is a possible consequence of radiative-acoustic instability appearing in solutions of radiative-hydrodynamical equations. However, clumping is usually included to stellar atmosphere modeling and…
The kinematic dispersions of disc stars can be used to measure the dynamic contributions of baryons to the rotation curves of spiral galaxies and hence to trace the amount and distribution of the remaining dark matter. However, the simple…