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X-Rays From Magnetically Confined Wind Shocks: Effect Of Cooling-Regulated Shock Retreat, A. Ud-Doula, S. Owocki, R. Townsend, V. Petit, David H. Cohen
X-Rays From Magnetically Confined Wind Shocks: Effect Of Cooling-Regulated Shock Retreat, A. Ud-Doula, S. Owocki, R. Townsend, V. Petit, David H. Cohen
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We use 2D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to examine the effects of radiative cooling and inverse Compton (IC) cooling on X-ray emission from magnetically confined wind shocks (MCWS) in magnetic massive stars with radiatively driven stellar winds. For the standard dependence of mass-loss rate on luminosity Ṁ∼ L1.7, the scaling of IC cooling with L and radiative cooling with Ṁ means that IC cooling become formally more important for lower luminosity stars. However, because the sense of the trends is similar, we find the overall effect of including IC cooling is quite modest. More significantly, for stars with high enough mass-loss …
Measuring Mass-Loss Rates And Constraining Shock Physics Using X-Ray Line Profiles Of O Stars From The Chandra Archive, David H. Cohen, Emma E. Wollman , '09, M. A. Leutenegger, J. O. Sundqvist, A. W. Fullerton, J. Zsargó, S. P. Owocki
Measuring Mass-Loss Rates And Constraining Shock Physics Using X-Ray Line Profiles Of O Stars From The Chandra Archive, David H. Cohen, Emma E. Wollman , '09, M. A. Leutenegger, J. O. Sundqvist, A. W. Fullerton, J. Zsargó, S. P. Owocki
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We quantitatively investigate the extent of wind absorption signatures in the X-ray grating spectra of all non-magnetic, effectively single O stars in the Chandra archive via line profile fitting. Under the usual assumption of a spherically symmetric wind with embedded shocks, we confirm previous claims that some objects show little or no wind absorption. However, many other objects do show asymmetric and blueshifted line profiles, indicative of wind absorption. For these stars, we are able to derive wind mass-loss rates from the ensemble of line profiles, and find values lower by an average factor of 3 than those predicted by …