A New Numerical Method for Solving Radiation Driven Winds from Hot Stars


Michel Cure (1), Diego F. Rial (1,2)

(1) Departamento de Fisica y Astronomia, Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile.
(2) Departamento de Matematicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

We present a general method for solving the non--linear differential equation of monotonically increasing steady--state radiation driven winds. We graphically identify all the singular points before transforming the momentum equation to a system of differential equations with all the gradients explicitly give. This permits a topological classification of all singular points and to calculate the maximum and minimum mass--loss of the wind. We use our method to analyse for the first time the topology of the non--rotating frozen in ionisation m--CAK wind, with the inclusion of the finite disk correction factor and find up to 4 singular points, three of the x--type and one attractor--type. The only singular point (and solution passing through) that satisfies the boundary condition at the stellar surface is the standard m--CAK singular point.

Reference: Accepted for publication in Astronomische Nachrichten / Astronomical Notes
Status: Manuscript has been accepted

Weblink: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0703143

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Email: michel.cure@uv.cl