TY - JOUR A1 - Krticka, Jiri A1 - Feldmeier, Achim T1 - Light variations due to the line-driven wind instability and wind blanketing in O stars JF - Astronomy and astrophysics : an international weekly journal N2 - A small fraction of the radiative flux emitted by hot stars is absorbed by their winds and redistributed towards longer wavelengths. This effect, which leads also to the heating of the stellar photosphere, is termed wind blanketing. For stars with variable winds, the effect of wind blanketing may lead to the photometric variability. We have studied the consequences of line driven wind instability and wind blanketing for the light variability of O stars. We combined the results of wind hydrodynamic simulations and of global wind models to predict the light variability of hot stars due to the wind blanketing and instability. The wind instability causes stochastic light variability with amplitude of the order of tens of millimagnitudes and a typical timescale of the order of hours for spatially coherent wind structure. The amplitude is of the order of millimagnitudes when assuming that the wind consists of large number of independent concentric cones. The variability with such amplitude is observable using present space borne photometers. We show that the simulated light curve is similar to the light curves of O stars obtained using BRITE and CoRoT satellites. KW - stars: winds, outflows KW - stars: mass-loss KW - stars: early-type KW - stars: variables: general KW - hydrodynamics Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731614 SN - 1432-0746 VL - 617 PB - EDP Sciences CY - Les Ulis ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kurfürst, P. A1 - Feldmeier, Achim A1 - Krticka, Jiri T1 - Two-dimensional modeling of density and thermal structure of dense circumstellar outflowing disks JF - Astronomy and astrophysics : an international weekly journal N2 - Context. Evolution of massive stars is affected by a significant loss of mass either via (nearly) spherically symmetric stellar winds or by aspherical mass-loss mechanisms, namely the outflowing equatorial disks. However, the scenario that leads to the formation of a disk or rings of gas and dust around massive stars is still under debate. It is also unclear how various forming physical mechanisms of the circumstellar environment affect its shape and density, as well as its kinematic and thermal structure. Results. Our models show the geometric distribution and contribution of viscous heating that begins to dominate in the central part of the disk for mass-loss rates higher than (M) over dot greater than or similar to 10(-10) M-circle dot yr(-1). In the models of dense viscous disks with (M) over dot > 10(-8) M-circle dot yr(-1), the viscosity increases the central temperature up to several tens of thousands of Kelvins, however the temperature rapidly drops with radius and with distance from the disk midplane. The high mass-loss rates and high viscosity lead to instabilities with significant waves or bumps in density and temperature in the very inner disk region. Conclusions. The two-dimensional radial-vertical models of dense outflowing disks including the full Navier-Stokes viscosity terms show very high temperatures that are however limited to only the central disk cores inside the optically thick area, while near the edge of the optically thick region the temperature may be low enough for the existence of neutral hydrogen, for example. KW - stars: massive KW - stars: mass-loss KW - stars: winds, outflows KW - stars: evolution KW - stars: rotation KW - hydrodynamics Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201731300 SN - 1432-0746 VL - 613 PB - EDP Sciences CY - Les Ulis ER -