Bibcode
Garcia, Miriam; Najarro, Francisco; Herrero, Artemio
Bibliographical reference
Société Royale des Sciences de Liège, Bulletin, vol. 80, p. 144-148 (Proceedings of the 39th Liège Astrophysical Colloquium, held in Liège 12-16 July 2010, edited by G. Rauw, M. De Becker, Y. Nazé, J.-M. Vreux, P. Williams)
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2011
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Description
The theory of radiatively driven winds successfully explains the key
points of the stellar winds of hot massive stars. However, there is an
apparent break-down of this paradigm at log L/L_&odot <5.2: the
stellar wind momentum is smaller than predicted for low luminosity
early-type stars from metal poor environments, and there are also some
Galactic examples. We present a preliminary analysis of a small sample
of stars of this luminosity regime in the Orion Nebula region and
evaluate whether magnetic fields may play some role in the weak wind
problem.