Self-Similar Evolution of Wind-Blown Bubbles with Mass-loading by Conductive Evaporation

Abstract

We present similarity solutions for mass-loaded adiabatic bubbles that are blown by winds having time dependent mechanical luminosities. We consider mass-loading through conductive evaporation of clumps. In the limit of little mass loading a similarity solution found by Dyson (1973) for expansion into a smooth ambient medium is recovered. We find that the Mach number in the shocked mass-loaded wind shows a radial dependence that varies qualitatively from solution to solution. In some cases it is everywhere less than unity in the frame of the clumps being evaporated, while in others it is everywhere greater than unity. In some solutions the mass-loaded shocked wind undergoes one or two sonic transitions in the clump frame. Maximum possible values of the ratio of evaporated mass to stellar wind mass are found as a consequence of the evaporation rates dependence on temperature and the lowering of the temperature by mass-loading. Mass-loading tends to reduce the emissivity in the interior of the bubble relative to its limb, whilst simultaneously increasing the central temperature relative to the limb temperature.

12 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication by A&A

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