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Pulsations as a mass-loss trigger in evolved hot stars†
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2014
Abstract
During their post-main sequence evolution, massive stars pass through several short-lived phases, in which they experience enhanced mass loss in the form of clumped winds and mass ejection events of unclear origin. The discovery that stars populating the blue luminous part of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram can pulsate suggests that stellar pulsations might influence or trigger enhanced mass loss and eruptions. We present recent results for two objects in different phases: a B[e] star at the end of the main sequence and a B-type supergiant.
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- Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 9 , Symposium S301: Precision Asteroseismology , August 2013 , pp. 217 - 220
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- Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014
Footnotes
Based on observations acquired at the Ondřejov Observatory, Czech Republic, the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, and with the HERMES spectrograph, which is supported by the Fund for Scientific Research of Flanders (FWO), Belgium, the Research Council of K.U.Leuven, Belgium, the Fonds National Recherches Scientific (FNRS), Belgium, the Royal Observatory of Belgium, the Observatoire de Genève, Switzerland and the Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg, Germany.