THE DYNAMICS OF STELLAR WINDS: THEIR STRUCTURES AND [OIII] LINE FORMATION

  • CHA SEUNG-HOON (Department of Earth Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • LEE YOUNG-JIN (Department of Earth Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • CHOE SEUNG-URN (Department of Earth Sciences, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 1996.12.01

Abstract

To understand the dynamical structures of stellar wind bubble, one and two-dimensional calculations has been performed. Using FCT Code with cooling effects and assuming constant mass loss rate and ambient medium density, we could divide stellar winds into the regime of slow and fast winds. The slow wind driven bubble shows initially radiative and becomes partially radiative bubble in which shocked stellar wind zone is still adiabatic. In contrast., the fast wind driven bubble shows initially fully adiabatic and becomes adiabatic bubbles with radiative outer shell. We also determine analytically the onset of thin-shell formation time in case of fast wind driven bubble with power-law energy injection and ambient density structure. We solve the line transfer problem with numerical results in order to calculate line profile of [OIII] forbidden line.

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