Strong Winds of Magnetic Massive Stars

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• Asif ud-Doula - Penn State Scranton
• Monday 08 February 2021, 14:00-15:00
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Massive stars (at least eight times as massive as the Sun) possess strong stellar winds driven by radiation. With the advent of the so called MiMeS collaboration, an increasing number of these massive stars have been confirmed to have global magnetic fields. Such magnetic fields can have significant influence on the dynamics of these stellar winds which are strongly ionized. Such interaction of the wind and magnetic field can generate copious amount of X-rays, they can spin the star down, they can also help form large scale disk-like structures. In this presentation I will discuss the nature of such radiatively-driven winds and how they interact with magnetic fields.

This talk is part of the DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars series.

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