2 papers
astro-ph.SR2026
Searching for low-mass stars with magnetically-induced hyper-inflated radii
D. J. Mullan, J. MacDonald
Precise empirical estimates of stellar radii have revealed that the radii of certain low-mass stars are inflated relative to stellar structure predictions: the largest inflations o…
astro-ph.SR2025
A plasmoid-model for mass loss from stars on the upper red giant branch: The mass loss rate is controlled by the number of density scale heights in the convection zone
J. MacDonald, D. J. Mullan
Recent asteroseismic determinations of ÎM, the integrated mass loss on the red giant branch (RGB), for fields stars show a trend of ÎM decreasing as metallicity increases. This t…