TY - JOUR
T1 - Magnetic fields in massive stars and magnetically confined winds
AU - ud-Doula, A.
N1 - Funding Information:
A.uD. acknowledges support by NASA through Chandra Award (no. GO5-16005X, AR6-17002C, G06-17007B, and TM7-18001X) issued by the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center, which is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for and behalf of NASA under contract NAS8-03060.
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© 2017 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
PY - 2017/10
Y1 - 2017/10
N2 - Massive stars (at least 8 times as massive as the Sun) possess strong stellar winds driven by radiation. With the advent of collaborations like MiMeS or BOB, an increasing number of these massive stars have been confirmed to have global magnetic fields. Such magnetic fields can have significant influence on the dynamics of these stellar winds, which are strongly ionized. Such interaction of the wind and magnetic field can generate copious amount of X-rays, can spin the star down, and can also help form large-scale disk-like structures. In this paper, we discuss the nature of such radiatively driven winds and how they interact with magnetic fields, often leading to confined winds.
AB - Massive stars (at least 8 times as massive as the Sun) possess strong stellar winds driven by radiation. With the advent of collaborations like MiMeS or BOB, an increasing number of these massive stars have been confirmed to have global magnetic fields. Such magnetic fields can have significant influence on the dynamics of these stellar winds, which are strongly ionized. Such interaction of the wind and magnetic field can generate copious amount of X-rays, can spin the star down, and can also help form large-scale disk-like structures. In this paper, we discuss the nature of such radiatively driven winds and how they interact with magnetic fields, often leading to confined winds.
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U2 - 10.1002/asna.201713394
DO - 10.1002/asna.201713394
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85034819349
SN - 0004-6337
VL - 338
SP - 944
EP - 951
JO - Astronomische Nachrichten
JF - Astronomische Nachrichten
IS - 8
ER -