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Can mass loss and overshooting prevent the excitation of g-modes in blue supergiants?
Godart, Mélanie; Noels-Grötsch, Arlette; Dupret, Marc-Antoine et al.
2009In Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 396, p. 1833-1841
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Keywords :
stars: evolution; stars: mass-loss; stars: oscillations; supergiants
Abstract :
[en] Thanks to their past history on the main-sequence phase, supergiant massive stars develop a convective shell around the helium core. This intermediate convective zone (ICZ) plays an essential role in governing which g-modes are excited. Indeed, a strong radiative damping occurs in the high-density radiative core but the ICZ acts as a barrier preventing the propagation of some g-modes into the core. These g-modes can thus be excited in supergiant stars by the kappa-mechanism in the superficial layers due to the opacity bump of iron, at logT = 5.2. However, massive stars are submitted to various complex phenomena such as rotation, magnetic fields, semiconvection, mass loss, overshooting. Each of these phenomena exerts a significant effect on the evolution and some of them could prevent the onset of the convective zone. We develop a numerical method which allows us to select the reflected, thus the potentially excited, modes only. We study different cases in order to show that mass loss and overshooting, in a large enough amount, reduce the extent of the ICZ and are unfavourable to the excitation of g-modes.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Godart, Mélanie ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Evol. et stabilité des étoiles et des amas d'étoiles (ESEA)
Noels-Grötsch, Arlette ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO)
Dupret, Marc-Antoine ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Astrophysique stellaire théorique
Lebreton, Y.;  Observatoire de Paris, GEPI, CNRS UMR 8111, 5 place J. Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France ; IPR, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France
Language :
English
Title :
Can mass loss and overshooting prevent the excitation of g-modes in blue supergiants?
Publication date :
01 July 2009
Journal title :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
ISSN :
0035-8711
eISSN :
1365-2966
Publisher :
Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom
Volume :
396
Pages :
1833-1841
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Commentary :
http://de.arxiv.org/abs/0904.4641
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