Effect of mass loss on the driving of g-modes in B supergiant stars

Godart, Mélanie; Noels, Arlette; Dupret, Marc-Antoine
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Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 118, Issue 1, id. 012055 (2008).

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2008
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3
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0
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1
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0
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MOST has detected p and g-modes in the B supergiant star HD163899. Saio et al. (2006) have explained the driving of g-modes in a post main sequence star by the presence of a convective shell which prevents some modes from entering the damping radiative core. We show that this scenario depends on the evolution of the star, with or without mass loss. If the mass loss rate is high enough, the convective shell disappears and all the g-modes are stable.