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We present an efficient technique to study the 1D evolution of instability-generated structure in winds of hot stars out to very large distances (more than 1000 stellar radii). This technique makes use of our previous finding that external…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. C. Runacres , S. P. Owocki

Context: State of the art quantitative spectroscopy of OB-stars compares synthetic spectra (calculated by means of 1D, spherically symmetric computer codes) with observations. Certain stellar atmospheres, however, show strong deviations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 L. Hennicker , J. Puls , N. D. Kee , J. O. Sundqvist

We calculate NLTE models of stellar winds of hot compact stars (central stars of planetary nebulae and subdwarf stars). The studied range of subdwarf parameters is selected to cover a large part of these stars. The models predict the wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-21 Jiri Krticka , Jiri Kubat

Transmission spectroscopy is a key technique in the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres and has been widely applied to planets undergoing hydrodynamic escape. While a robust analytic theory exists for transmission spectra of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Leonardos Gkouvelis

Galactic winds shape the stellar, gas, and metal content of galaxies. To quantify their impact, we must understand their physics. We review potential wind-driving mechanisms and observed wind properties, with a focus on the warm ionized and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-21 Todd A. Thompson , Timothy M. Heckman

Radiation-driven winds of massive stars can be described within the modified CAK theory, which parametrises the radiation force through three key quantities: $\alpha$, $\delta$, and $k$. Different combinations of these parameters, together…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 M. C. Fernandez , R. O. J. Venero , L. S. Cidale , I. Araya , M. Curé

High-resolution X-ray spectra of O-type stars revealed less wind absorption than expected from smooth winds with conventional mass-loss rates. Various solutions have been proposed, including porous winds, optically thick clumps or an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Hervé , G. Rauw , Y. Nazé , A. Foster

Diffuse soft X-ray line emission is commonly used to trace the thermal and chemical properties of the hot interstellar medium, as well as its content, in nearby galaxies. Although resonant line scattering complicates the interpretation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Yang Chen , Q. Daniel Wang , Gao-Yuan Zhang , Shuinai Zhang , Li Ji

Galactic winds play a crucial role in the ejection of the interstellar medium (ISM) into intergalactic space. This study presents a model that classifies possible transonic solutions of galactic winds in the gravitational potential of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-05 Asuka Igarashi , Masao Mori , Shin'ya Nitta

We study theoretically the spatial evolution of optical beams inside a graded-index fiber exhibiting saturable nonlinearity. Utilizing an approach based on the variational principle, we identify the existence of bistable spatial solitons…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-10 Tiyas Das , Anuj P. Lara , Samudra Roy , Govind P. Agrawal

Observational implications are derived for two standard models of supernovae-driven galactic winds: a freely expanding steady-state wind and a wind sourced by a self-similarly expanding superbubble including thermal heat conduction. It is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Avery Meiksin

We analyze recent 2D simulations of the nonlinear evolution of the line-deshadowing instability (LDI) in hot-star winds, to quantify how the associated highly clumped density structure can lead to a "turbulent porosity" reduction in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Stanley P. Owocki , Jon O. Sundqvist

Coherent control has enabled various novel phenomena in wave scattering. We introduce an effect called coherent orthogonal scattering, where the output wave becomes orthogonal to the reference output state without scatterers. This effect…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-13 Cheng Guo , Shanhui Fan

We provide hot star wind models with radiative force calculated using the solution of comoving frame (CMF) radiative transfer equation. The wind models are calculated for the first stars, O stars, and the central stars of planetary nebulae.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jiri Krticka , Jiri Kubat

This work investigates both direct and inverse problems of the variable-exponent sub-diffusion model, which attracts increasing attentions in both practical applications and theoretical aspects. Based on the perturbation method, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Zhiyuan Li , Chunlong Sun , Xiangcheng Zheng

We present a fully nonlinear hydrodynamic 'shallow water' model of the solar tachocline. The model consists of a global spherical shell of differentially rotating fluid, which has a deformable top, thus allowing motions in radial directions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-22 Mausumi Dikpati

We develop analytic and numerical models of the properties of super-Eddington stellar winds, motivated by phases in stellar evolution when super-Eddington energy deposition (via, e.g., unstable fusion, wave heating, or a binary companion)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-24 Eliot Quataert , Rodrigo Fernandez , Daniel Kasen , Hannah Klion , Bill Paxton

Massive stars present strong stellar that which are described by the radiation driven wind theory. Accurate mass-loss rates are necessary to properly describe the stellar evolution across the Hertzsprung--Russel Diagram. We present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Alex C. Gormaz-Matamala , Michel Curé , Lydia S. Cidale , Roberto O. J. Venero

Context. Radiation-driven mass loss is key to our understanding of massive-star evolution. However, for low-luminosity O-type stars there are big discrepancies between theoretically predicted and empirically derived mass-loss rates (called…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 C. Lagae , F. A. Driessen , L. Hennicker , N. D. Kee , J. O. Sundqvist

Here we present a self-consistent stationary solution for spherically symmetric winds driven by massive star clusters under the impact of radiative cooling. We demonstrate that cooling may modify drastically the distribution of temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergiy Silich , Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle , Ary Rodriguez-Gonzalez