IAU G5 Talk: Winds of Magnetic Massive Stars

Authors
Dr.
Asif ud-Doula
Date and time
20 Sep 2022 - 17:30 Europe/London
Address

Online

Talk language
English
Slides language
English
Serie number
1
Description

Massive stars (at least eight times as massive as the Sun) possess strong stellar winds driven by radiation. With the advent of the so called MiMeS collaboration, 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, they can spin the star down, they can also help form large scale disk-like structures. In this presentation I will discuss the nature of such radiatively-driven winds and how they interact with magnetic fields.

https://youtu.be/jKmifm17bno