Stochastic light variations in hot stars from wind instability: finding photometric signatures and testing against the TESS data
Identifikátory výsledku
Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F21%3A00118998" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/21:00118998 - isvavai.cz</a>
Výsledek na webu
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202040148" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202040148</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202040148" target="_blank" >10.1051/0004-6361/202040148</a>
Alternativní jazyky
Jazyk výsledku
angličtina
Název v původním jazyce
Stochastic light variations in hot stars from wind instability: finding photometric signatures and testing against the TESS data
Popis výsledku v původním jazyce
Context. Line-driven wind instability is expected to cause small-scale wind inhomogeneities, X-ray emission, and wind line profile variability. The instability can already develop around the sonic point if it is initiated close to the photosphere due to stochastic turbulent motions. In such cases, it may leave its imprint on the light curve as a result of wind blanketing.Aims. We study the photometric signatures of the line-driven wind instability.Methods. We used line-driven wind instability simulations to determine the wind variability close to the star. We applied two types of boundary perturbations: a sinusoidal one that enables us to study in detail the development of the instability and a stochastic one given by a Langevin process that provides a more realistic boundary perturbation. We estimated the photometric variability from the resulting mass-flux variations. The variability was simulated assuming that the wind consists of a large number of independent conical wind sectors. We compared the simulated light curves with TESS light curves of OB stars that show stochastic variability.Results. We find two typical signatures of line-driven wind instability in photometric data: a knee in the power spectrum of magnitude fluctuations, which appears due to engulfment of small-scale structure by larger structures, and a negative skewness of the distribution of fluctuations, which is the result of spatial dominance of rarefied regions. These features endure even when combining the light curves from independent wind sectors.Conclusions. The stochastic photometric variability of OB stars bears certain signatures of the line-driven wind instability. The distribution function of observed photometric data shows negative skewness and the power spectra of a fraction of light curves exhibit a knee. This can be explained as a result of the line-driven wind instability triggered by stochastic base perturbations.
Název v anglickém jazyce
Stochastic light variations in hot stars from wind instability: finding photometric signatures and testing against the TESS data
Popis výsledku anglicky
Context. Line-driven wind instability is expected to cause small-scale wind inhomogeneities, X-ray emission, and wind line profile variability. The instability can already develop around the sonic point if it is initiated close to the photosphere due to stochastic turbulent motions. In such cases, it may leave its imprint on the light curve as a result of wind blanketing.Aims. We study the photometric signatures of the line-driven wind instability.Methods. We used line-driven wind instability simulations to determine the wind variability close to the star. We applied two types of boundary perturbations: a sinusoidal one that enables us to study in detail the development of the instability and a stochastic one given by a Langevin process that provides a more realistic boundary perturbation. We estimated the photometric variability from the resulting mass-flux variations. The variability was simulated assuming that the wind consists of a large number of independent conical wind sectors. We compared the simulated light curves with TESS light curves of OB stars that show stochastic variability.Results. We find two typical signatures of line-driven wind instability in photometric data: a knee in the power spectrum of magnitude fluctuations, which appears due to engulfment of small-scale structure by larger structures, and a negative skewness of the distribution of fluctuations, which is the result of spatial dominance of rarefied regions. These features endure even when combining the light curves from independent wind sectors.Conclusions. The stochastic photometric variability of OB stars bears certain signatures of the line-driven wind instability. The distribution function of observed photometric data shows negative skewness and the power spectra of a fraction of light curves exhibit a knee. This can be explained as a result of the line-driven wind instability triggered by stochastic base perturbations.
Klasifikace
Druh
J<sub>imp</sub> - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science
CEP obor
—
OECD FORD obor
10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)
Návaznosti výsledku
Projekt
<a href="/cs/project/GA18-05665S" target="_blank" >GA18-05665S: Ztráta hmoty v pozdních fázích vývoje hmotných hvězd</a><br>
Návaznosti
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Ostatní
Rok uplatnění
2021
Kód důvěrnosti údajů
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Údaje specifické pro druh výsledku
Název periodika
Astronomy and Astrophysics
ISSN
0004-6361
e-ISSN
—
Svazek periodika
648
Číslo periodika v rámci svazku
April
Stát vydavatele periodika
FR - Francouzská republika
Počet stran výsledku
9
Strana od-do
„A79“
Kód UT WoS článku
000647070100001
EID výsledku v databázi Scopus
2-s2.0-85104233564