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The fluctuation theory of the stellar mass loss

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C.D. Andriesse
C.D. Andriesse*
Affiliation:
Kapteyn Sterrenwacht, University of Groningen

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That we cannot give a justification – or sufficient reasons – for our guesses does not mean that we may not have guessed the truth.

K.R. Popper

If studied in detail, the mass flows from the stars appear to be variable. “Mere inspection of solar wind data reveals large variations on a time scale of several days” (Hundhausen, 1972). Also, “it is obvious that mass loss from hot stars is not a stationary phenomenon but that variations on short timescale occur” (de Jager et. al., 1979). And a cool supergiant has “a photosphere fluctuating in both brightness and radial velocity, (and) an expanding chromosphere … uncoupled from motions in the photosphere” (Goldberg, 1979).

Type
Session IV - Winds From Late Type Stars: Theory
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 59: Effects of Mass Loss on Stellar Evolution , 1981 , pp. 213 - 227
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1981

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