2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/4797Recent advances in the modelling of stellar winds driven by radiation pressure make it possible to fit many wind-sensitive features in the UV spectra of hot stars, opening the way for a hydrodynamically consistent determination of stellar radii, masses, and luminosities from the UV spectrum alone. It is thus no longer necessary to assume a theoretical mass-luminosity relation. As the method has been shown to work for massive O-stars, we are now able to test predictions from the post-AGB evolutionary calculations quantitatively for the first time. Here we present the first rather surprising consequences of using the new generation of model atmospheres for the analysis of a sample of central stars of planetary nebulae.To appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 209, Planetary NebulaeAstrophysicstext