Exploring the connection of weak winds and magnetic fields

Garcia, Miriam; Najarro, Francisco; Herrero, Artemio
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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)

Fecha de publicación:
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2011
Número de autores
3
Número de autores del IAC
0
Número de citas
2
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2
Descripción
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.