Mass Loss from Rotating Hot-stars: Inhibition of Wind Compressed Disks by Nonradial Line-forces |
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Authors: | S P Owocki S R Cranmer K G Gayley |
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Institution: | (1) Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716;(2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, 02138;(3) Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 50011 |
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Abstract: | We review the dynamics of radiatively driven mass loss from rapidly rotating hot-stars. We first summarize the angular momentum
conservation process that leads to formation of a Wind Compressed Disk(WCD) when material from a rapidly rotating star is driven gradually outward in the radial direction. We next describe how
stellar oblateness and asymmetries in the Sobolev line-resonance generally leads to nonradialcomponents of the driving force is a line-driven wind, including an azimuthal spin-down force acting against the sense of
the wind rotation, and a latitudinal force away from the equator. We summarize results from radiation-hydrodynamical simulations
showing that these nonradial forces can lead to an effective suppressionof the equatorward flow needed to form a WCD, as well as a modest (∼ 25%) spin-downof the wind rotation. Furthermore, contrary to previous expectations that the wind mass flux should be enhanced by the reduced
effective gravity near the equator, we show here that gravity darkening effects can actually lead to a reducedmass loss, and thus lower density, in the wind from the equatorial region. Finally, we examine the equatorial bistability
model, and show that a sufficiently strong jump in wind driving parameters can, in principle, overcome the effect of reduced
radiative driving flux, thus still allowing moderate enhancements in density in an equatorial, bistability zone wind.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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