6 papers
The MiMeS Project: Magnetism in Massive Stars
G. A. Wade, E. Alecian, D. A. Bohlender +11
The Magnetism in Massive Stars (MiMeS) Project is a consensus collaboration among the foremost international researchers of the physics of hot, massive stars, with the basic aim of…
The MiMeS Project: First Results
J. H. Grunhut, E. Alecian, D. A. Bohlender +11
Massive stars are those stars with initial masses above about 8 times that of the sun, eventually leading to catastrophic explosions in the form of supernovae. These represent the…
Angular Momentum Loss and Stellar spin-down in Magnetic Massive Stars
Asif ud-Doula, Stanley P. Owocki, Richard H. D. Townsend
We examine the angular momentum loss and associated rotational spin-down for magnetic hot stars with a line-driven stellar wind and a rotation-aligned dipole magnetic field. Our an…
Dynamical Simulations of Magnetically Channeled Line-Driven Stellar Winds: III. Angular Momentum Loss and Rotational Spindown
Asif ud-Doula, Stanley P. Owocki, Richard H. D. Townsend
We examine the angular momentum loss and associated rotational spindown for magnetic hot stars with a line-driven stellar wind and a rotation-aligned dipole magnetic field. Our ana…
Dynamical Simulations of Magnetically Channeled Line-Driven Stellar Winds: II. The Effects of Field-Aligned Rotation
Asif ud-Doula, Stanley Owocki, Richard Townsend
Building upon our previous MHD simulation study of magnetic channeling in radiatively driven stellar winds, we examine here the additional dynamical effects of stellar {\em rotatio…
A Rigid-Field Hydrodynamics approach to modeling the magnetospheres of massive stars
R. H. D. Townsend, S. P. Owocki, A. ud-Doula
We introduce a new Rigid-Field Hydrodynamics approach to modeling the magnetospheres of massive stars in the limit of very-strong magnetic fields. Treating the field lines as effec…