Bibcode
Herrero, A.; Najarro, F.; Puls, J.
Bibliographical reference
Stellar Atmosphere Modeling, ASP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 288. Abstracts from a conference held 8-12 April 2002 in Tuebingen, Germany. Editors: Ivan Hubeny, Dimitri Mihalas, and Klaus Werner. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, ISBN: 1-58381-131-1, 2003, p.243
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Description
We present first results of an spectroscopic analysis of 7 O supergiants
in Cyg OB2 using two different model atmosphere codes (Santolaya-Rey,
Puls, Herrero, 1997, A&A 323, 488; and Hillier & Miller, 1998,
ApJ 496, 407). The first code has been improved including an estimation
of metal line blocking effects (Puls, in prep.). The second one has been
improved including a photospheric density structure (Najarro et al., in
prep.). The results from both codes compare well within the
observational uncertainties.
The main result of these analyses is a lower temperature scale for O
supergiants as compared with previous analyses using either
plane-parallel, hydrostatic or spherical, mass-lossing models (see
Herrero, Puls, Villamariz, A&A 2000, 354, 193). The lower
temperatures are thus an effect of the additional metal line opacity and
the large mass-loss rates. In some cases, the new derived effective
temperature is reduced up to 10,000 K.
As a consequence, radii and luminosities are also changed, reducing the
mass discrepancy and modifying the Wind Momentum- Luminosity
Relationship.