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What is the essential physics of mass loss from late-type stars?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Jeffrey L. Linsky
Jeffrey L. Linsky*
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado and National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440

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In this review I consider what clues the data are providing us concerning the mass loss from late-type stars. I consider in turn the major classes of mass-loss mechanisms (thermally-driven winds, radiatively-driven winds, and wave-driven winds), and consider whether the empirical mass loss rates and other data are consistent with any of these mechanisms acting alone. It is likely that several mechanisms act together to produce the large mass loss rates in the Mira and non-pulsating M supergiants. Studies of the solar atmosphere suggest that thermal bifurcation driven by molecular condensation instabilities may play a critical role in cooling the atmospheres of luminous cool stars and forming silicate dust. It is possible that several metastable modes of atmospheric structure may exist for a given set of stellar parameters.

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Mass-Loss From Cool Stars
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 122: Circumstellar Matter , 1987 , pp. 271 - 287
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Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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