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Miriam Garcia, Francisco Najarro & Artemio Herrero

Exploring the connection of weak winds and magnetic fields

(Volume 80 - Année 2011)
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Abstract

The theory of radiatively driven winds successfully explains the key points of the stellar winds of hot massive stars. However, there is an apparent break-down of this paradigm at log L/Lo <5.2: the stellar wind momentum is smaller than predicted for low luminosity early-type stars from metal poor environments, and there are also some Galactic examples. We present a preliminary analysis of a small sample of stars of this luminosity regime in the Orion Nebula region and evaluate whether magnetic fields may play some role in the weak wind problem.

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Miriam Garcia, Francisco Najarro & Artemio Herrero, «Exploring the connection of weak winds and magnetic fields», Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège [En ligne], Volume 80 - Année 2011, 144 - 148 URL : http://popups.ulg.be/0037-9565/index.php?id=2603.

About: Miriam Garcia

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain, and Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain

About: Francisco Najarro

Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain

About: Artemio Herrero

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain, and Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain