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红超巨星的大气动力学和质量损失过程

Atmospheric dynamics and the mass loss process in red supergiant stars

E. Josselin, B. Plez

摘要:

红超巨星代表了大质量恒星演化的一个关键阶段。最近的辐射流体动力学模拟表明,它们的大气层可能是大尺度对流运动的位置。由于超巨星对流预计会产生超音速运动和冲击,我们寻求这些大气运动的约束条件和它们与质量损失率的可能关系。我们提出了高分辨率,可见光谱的红超巨星(光谱类型MI)的样本,并分析它们与层析技术。我们观察到陡峭的速度梯度,表征向上和向下的超音速运动,这是时间变量的时间尺度上的几百天。这些对流运动将产生湍流压力,这将大大降低有效重力。我们认为,这种减少,结合分子线上的辐射压力,开始在红超巨星的质量损失。

英文摘要:

Red supergiant stars represent a key phase in the evolution of massive stars. Recent radiative hydrodynamic simulations suggest that their atmospheres may be the location of large-scale convective motions. As supergiant convection is expected to generate supersonic motions and shocks, we seek constraints on these atmospheric motions and their possible relation with mass-loss rates. We present high-resolution, visible spectroscopy of a sample of red supergiants (spectral type M I) and analyse them with a tomographic technique. We observe steep velocity gradients, characterising both upward and downward supersonic motions, which are time variable on time scales of a few hundred days. These convective motions will generate turbulent pressure, which will strongly decrease the effective gravity. We suggest that this decrease, combined with radiative pressure on molecular lines, initiate the mass loss in red supergiant stars.

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