期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 499, 期 4, 页码 5366-5378出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa2325
关键词
stars: early-type; stars: magnetic field; stars: mass loss; stars: winds, outflows; X-rays: stars
资金
- European Southern Observatory studentship program in Santiago, Chile
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship program
- Annie Jump Cannon Fellowship
- University of Delaware
- NASA through Chandra Award [GO5-16005X, TM7-18001X]
- NSF [ACI-1663696, AST-1716436]
- NASA [NAS8- 03060]
- KU Leuven and its Institute voor Sterrenkunde (IvS) [ZKD1332-00-D01]
Strongly magnetic B-type stars with moderately rapid rotation form 'centrifugal magnetospheres' (CMs) from the magnetic trapping of stellar wind material in a region above the Kepler co-rotation radius. A long-standing question is whether the eventual loss of such trapped material occurs from gradual drift and/or diffusive leakage, or through sporadic `centrifugal breakout' (CBO) events, wherein magnetic tension can no longer contain the built-up mass. We argue here that recent empirical results for Balmer-a emission from such B-star CMs strongly favour the CBO mechanism. Most notably, the fact that the onset of such emission depends mainly on the field strength at the Kepler radius, and is largely independent of the stellar luminosity, strongly disfavours any drift/diffusion process, for which the net mass balance would depend on the luminosity-dependent wind feeding rate. In contrast, we show that in a CBO model, the maximum confined mass in the magnetosphere is independent of this wind feeding rate and has a dependence on field strength and Kepler radius that naturally explains the empirical scalings for the onset of Ha emission, its associated equivalent width, and even its line profile shapes. However, the general lack of observed Balmer emission in late-B and A-type stars could still be attributed to a residual level of diffusive or drift leakage that does not allow their much weaker winds to fill their CMs to the breakout level needed for such emission; alternatively, this might result from a transition to a metal-ion wind that lacks the requisite hydrogen. Key words: stars: early-type - stars: magnetic field - stars: mass loss
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