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Stellar winds are a major source of uncertainty in understanding the life and deaths of massive stars. Across studies in the field, prescriptions for stellar winds differ substantially in both their physical assumptions and implementation,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Amedeo Romagnolo , Floor S. Broekgaarden , Konstantinos Antoniadis , Alex C. Gormaz-Matamala

The time dependent evolution of the accretion disk around black hole is computed. The classical description of the $\alpha$-viscosity is adopted so the evolution is driven by the instability operating in the innermost radiation-pressure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny , Aneta Siemiginowska

With their emission-line dominated spectra, the appearance of Wolf-Rayet stars is shaped by their strong stellar winds. Yet, the physical mechanisms behind their high mass loss have long remained enigmatic. While we know nowadays that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Andreas A. C. Sander , Roel R. Lefever , Gemma González-Torà

Mass ejection in the form of winds or jets appears to be as fundamental to quasar activity as accretion, and can be directly observed in many objects with broadened and blue-shifted UV absorption features. A convincing argument for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-29 S. C. Gallagher , M. M. Abado , J. E. Everett , S. Keating , R. P. Deo

The theoretical debris supply rate from a tidal disruption of stars can exceed about one hundred times of the Eddington accretion rate for a $10^{6-7}M_{\odot}$ supermassive black hole (SMBH). It is believed that a strong wind will be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-29 Yuehua Zhang , Qingwen Wu , Jiancheng Wu , Xinwu Cao , Weihua Lei

We present solutions for the velocity field and mass-loss rates for 2D axisymmetric outflows, as well as for the case of mass accretion through the use of the Lambert W-function. For the case of a rotating radiation-driven wind the velocity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-20 Patrick E. Müller , Jorick S. Vink

Mass loss from massive stars located in the part of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD) where we find luminous blue variables (LBVs) is profoundly important for stellar evolution yet poorly understood. We use time-dependent…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-24 P. Schillemans , J. O. Sundqvist , D. Debnath , L. Delbroek , N. Moens , C. Van der Sijpt

Winds are commonly observed in luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs). A plausible model of those winds is magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disc winds. In the case of disc winds from a thin accretion disc, isothermal or adiabatic assumption is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Weixiao Wang , De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan

Accretion disk winds browing off perpendicular to a luminous disk are examined in the framework of fully special relativistic radiation hydrodynamics. The wind is assumed to be steady, vertical, and isothermal. %and the gravitational fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jun Fukue , Chizuru Akizuki

We show that magnetized, radiation dominated atmospheres can support steady state patterns of density inhomogeneity that enable them to radiate at far above the Eddington limit, without suffering mass loss. The inhomogeneities consist of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mitchell C. Begelman

Many astrophysical sources, e.g., cataclysmic variables, X-ray binaries, active galactic nuclei, exhibit a wind outflow, when they reveal a multicolor blackbody spectrum, hence harboring a geometrically thin Keplerian accretion disk. Unlike…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-14 Nagendra Kumar , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

We use numerical hydrodynamics simulations to study line driven winds launched from an accreting alpha-disc. Building on previous work where the driving radiation field is static, we compute a time-dependent radiation flux from the local,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Anthony Kirilov , Sergei Dyda , Christopher S. Reynolds

The electromagnetic radiation pressure becomes dominant in the interaction of the ultra-intense electromagnetic wave with a solid material, thus the wave energy can be transformed efficiently into the energy of ions representing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Esirkepov , M. Borghesi , S. V. Bulanov , G. Mourou , T. Tajima

We analyze the dynamics of 2-D stationary, line-driven winds from accretion disks in cataclysmic variable stars. The driving force is that of line radiation pressure, in the formalism developed by Castor, Abbott & Klein for O stars. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Achim Feldmeier , Isaac Shlosman

Dwarf novae (DNe) and X-ray binaries exhibit outbursts thought to be due to a thermal-viscous instability in the accretion disk. The disk instability model (DIM) assumes that accretion is driven by turbulent transport, customarily…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Nicolas Scepi , Guillaume Dubus , Geoffroy Lesur

We analyze the wind generated by the great 20 year long super-Eddington outburst of eta-Carinae. We show that using classical stellar atmospheres and winds theory, it is impossible to construct a consistent wind model in which a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nir J. Shaviv

Radiative transfer in a relativistic plane-parallel flow, e.g., an accretion disk wind, is examined in the fully special relativistic treatment. Under the assumption of a constant flow speed, for the relativistically moving atmosphere we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Fukue

We analyze the dynamics of 2D stationary line-driven winds from accretion disks in cataclysmic variables (CVs), by generalizing the Castor, Abbott and Klein theory. In paper 1, we have solved the wind Euler equation, derived its two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Achim Feldmeier , Isaac Shlosman , Peter Vitello

Massive stars drive powerful, supersonic winds via the radiative momentum associated with the thermal UV emission from their photospheres. Shock phenomena are ubiquitous in these winds, heating them to millions, and sometimes tens of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 David H. Cohen

We constructed a multi-fluid two-dimensional hydrodynamic model with detailed radiative transfer to depict the escape of particles. We found that the tidal forces supply significant accelerations and result in anisotropic winds. An…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. H. Guo