The effects of clumping on wind line variability

dc.creatorMassa, D.
dc.creatorPrinja, R. K.
dc.creatorFullerton, A. W.
dc.date2007-08-07
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dc.descriptionWe review the effects of clumping on the profiles of resonance doublets. By allowing the ratio of the doublet oscillator strenghts to be a free parameter, we demonstrate that doublet profiles contain more information than is normally utilized. In clumped (or porous) winds, this ratio can lies between unity and the ratio of the f-values, and can change as a function of velocity and time, depending on the fraction of the stellar disk that is covered by material moving at a particular velocity at a given moment. Using these insights, we present the results of SEI modeling of a sample of B supergiants, zeta Pup and a time series for a star whose terminal velocity is low enough to make the components of its Si IV 1400 doublet independent. These results are interpreted within the framework of the Oskinova et al. (2007) model, and demonstrate how the doublet profiles can be used to extract infromation about wind structure.
dc.description3 pages, to appear in Clumping in Hot Star Winds, W.-R. Hamann, A. Feldmeier & L. Oskinova, eds., Potsdam: Univ.-Verl., 2007, URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13981
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0857
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0857
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/135688
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe effects of clumping on wind line variability
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