Stellar envelope inflation near the Eddington limit: Implications for the radii of Wolf-Rayet stars and luminous blue variables

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 538, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Grafener G ^a   Owocki, S P ^b   Vink, J S ^a  

^a ARMAGH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

stars: early type; stars: interiors; stars: variables: S Doradus; stars: Wolf Rayet

Indexed keywords

COMPACT STARS; DENSE SHELLS; DIMENSIONLESS PARAMETERS; DUAL APPROACH; EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE; GAMMA RAY BURSTS; HERTZSPRUNG-RUSSELL DIAGRAMS; INHOMOGENEITIES; LUMINOUS BLUE VARIABLES; LUMINOUS STARS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; NUMERICAL MODELS; STARS: EARLY-TYPE; STARS: INTERIORS; STARS: VARIABLES: S DORADUS; STARS: WOLF-RAYET; STATIC SOLUTIONS; STELLAR ENVELOPE; STELLAR ROTATION; WOLF-RAYET; WOLF-RAYET STARS;

GAMMA RAYS; LUMINANCE; TEMPERATURE;

STARS;

EID: 84856401535     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117497     Document Type: Article

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