Mass loss rates in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
Abstract
From the literature the authors collected values for the rate of mass loss for 271 stars, nearly all of population I and of spectral types O through M. Rates of stellar mass loss -Mdetermined according to six different methods were compared and appear to yield the same result per star within the limits of errors. The M-data can well be represented by one empirical interpolation formula, as a function of the effective temperature Teff and luminosity L. In addition the authors studied some groups of other stars: fast rotators and chemically evolved stars. The chemically evolved stars have rates of mass loss which are larger than those of "normal" stars occupying the same positions in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series
- Pub Date:
- February 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988A&AS...72..259D
- Keywords:
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- Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram;
- O Stars;
- Planetary Nebulae;
- Stellar Luminosity;
- Stellar Mass Ejection;
- Wolf-Rayet Stars;
- B Stars;
- Carbon Stars;
- Computational Astrophysics;
- High Temperature;
- Hot Stars;
- Stellar Mass;
- Astrophysics