Radiatively Driven Winds and Disks Stan Owocki Bartol Research Institute University of Delaware CAK (1975) line-driven wind theory steady, 1D spherically symmetric applied to hot, luminous, massive, OB-type stars Modern extensions & applications: Small-scale instability Co-rotating Interaction Regions (CIRs) Radiative braking in colliding wind binaries Wind Compressed Disk inhibition Line-driven ablation Accretion disk winds in BAL QSOs Collaborators: David Cohen, Bartol Ken Gayley, U. Iowa Steve Cranmer, Harvard CfA Joachim Puls, Munich
Doppler Shifting of Line-Absorption in an Accelerating Stellar Wind
Height (R * ) CAK Steady-State Velocity (km/s) Density (g/cm 3 ) 1D Simulation of small-scale line-driven instability X-ray emitting shock
XMonitoring campaigns of P- Cygni lines formed in hot-star winds also often show modulation at periods comparable to the stellar rotation period. XThese may stem from large-scale surface structure that induces spiral wind variation analogous to solar Corotating Interaction Regions. HD64760 Monitored during IUE “Mega” Campaign Rotational Modulation of Hot-Star Winds Radiation hydrodynamics simulation of CIRs in a hot-star wind
WCD Inhibition by non-radial line-forces Vrot (km/s) = Wind Compressed Disks
O star * WR star * WR star Radiative braking in colliding wind binaries
g lines ~ dv l /dl Line-Driven Ablation Net radiative Flux = 0, but g lines ~ dv l /dl > 0 !
Accretion Disk Winds from BAL QSOs
local CAK model nonlocal smooth model nonlocal structured model c. log(Density) b. a. 2D Simulation of large-scale Co-rotating Interaction Regions