Mass loss and stellar superwinds
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2017-10-11 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
Mass loss bridges the gap between massive stars and supernovae (SNe) in two major ways: (i) theoretically it is the amount of mass lost that determines the mass of the star prior to explosion, and (ii) observations of the circumstellar material around SNe may teach us the type of progenitor that made the SN. Here, I present the latest models and observations of mass loss from massive stars, both for canonical massive O stars, as well as very massive stars (VMS) that show Wolf-Rayet type features.
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@article{arxiv.1610.00578,
title = {Mass loss and stellar superwinds},
author = {Jorick S. Vink},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00578},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
12 pages, 9 figures. Invited Review in: Bridging the gap: from massive stars to supernovae (Royal Society Meeting)