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Efficiency of viscous angular momentum transport in dissipating Be binaries
Peter Quigley, Carol E. Jones, Kenneth Gayley +9
Angular momentum transport is a fundamental process shaping the structure, evolution, and lifespans of stars and disks across a wide range of astrophysical systems. Be stars offer…
A generalized semi-analytic model for the combined outflow from a cluster of stars with strong stellar winds
Stan Owocki
We derive semi-analytic solutions for the thermally driven cumulative outflow from a dense stellar cluster that consists of a large number of stars with strong stellar winds, under…
Winds and magnetospheres of stars and planets: similarities and differences
Stan Owocki
Both stars and planets can lose mass through an expansive wind outflow, often constrained or channeled by magnetic fields that form a surrounding magnetosphere. The very strong win…
Getting started: How a supersonic stellar wind is initiated from a hydrostatic surface
Stan Owocki
Most of a star's mass is bound in a hydrostatic equilibrium in which pressure balances gravity. But if at some near-surface layer additional outward forces overcome gravity, this c…
Line-driven ablation of circumstellar discs: II. Analyzing the role of multiple resonances
Nathaniel Kee, Stan Owocki, Rolf Kuiper
We extend our previous study of radiative ablation of circumstellar disks by line-scattering of the star's radiation, accounting now for the effect of multiple line resonances off…
On the optically-thick winds of Wolf-Rayet stars
G. Gräfener, S. P. Owocki, L. Grassitelli +1
(abridged) The strong winds of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are important for the mechanical and chemical feedback of the most massive stars and determine whether they end their lives as…
Investigating the Magnetospheres of Rapidly Rotating B-type Stars
C. L. Fletcher, V. Petit, Y. Naze +6
Recent spectropolarimetric surveys of bright, hot stars have found that ~10% of OB-type stars contain strong (mostly dipolar) surface magnetic fields (~kG). The prominent paradigm…
Pulsational Mass Ejection in Be Star Disks
Nathaniel Kee, Stan Owocki, Richard Townsend +1
This work explores a Pulsationally Driven Orbital Mass Ejection (PDOME) model for the launching of Classical Be star disks. Under this model, a combination of rapid rotation and no…
An X-ray Survey of Colliding Wind Binaries
Marc Gagne, Garrett Fehon, Michael Savoy +3
We have compiled a list of 36 O+O and 89 Wolf-Rayet binary candidates in the Milky Way and Magellanic clouds detected with the Chandra, XMM-Newton and ROSAT satellites to probe the…
Modeling the Magnetosphere of the B2Vp star sigma Ori E
M. E. Oksala, G. A. Wade, R. H. D Townsend +2
This paper presents results obtained from Stokes I and V spectra of the B2Vp star sigma Ori E, observed by both the Narval and ESPaDOnS spectropolarimeters. Using Least- Squares De…