Line-driven instability

Authors
Feldmeier, A Owocki, S
Citation
A. Feldmeier et S. Owocki, Line-driven instability, ASTRO SP SC, 260(1-2), 1998, pp. 113-122
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Space Sciences
Journal title
ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE
ISSN journal
0004640X → ACNP
Volume
260
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
113 - 122
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-640X(1998)260:1-2<113:LI>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Line-driven winds are subject to a strong radiation-hydrodynamic instabilit y. We discuss the linear stability analysis and numerical simulations of th e fully developed wind structure. The latter show sequences of strong rever se shocks, and two different families of clouds which mutually collide. Pos sible applications are the X-ray emission from O stars and the formation of dense clouds in broad absorption line quasars.