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Effects of a stochastic initial mass function on the upper main sequence band

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

C. Chiosi  and
L. Greggio
C. Chiosi
Affiliation:
Istituto di Astronomia, Università di Padova, Italy
L. Greggio
Affiliation:
Istituto di Astronomia, Università di Padova, Italy

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The theoretical (Mb versus Log Te) HR diagram for the brightest galactic OB stars shows an upper boundary for the luminosity, which is characterized by a decreasing luminosity with decreasing effective temperature (Humphreys and Davidson, 1979). The existence of this limit was interpreted by Chiosi et al. (1978) as due to the effect of mass loss by stellar wind on the evolution of most massive stars in core H-burning phase. In fact, evolutionary models calculated at constant mass cover a wider and wider range in effective temperature as the initial mass increases during the main sequence phase. On the contrary, sufficiently high mass-loss rates make the evolutionary sequences of most massive stars (M 60⩾Mʘ) shrink toward the zero age main sequence whenever, due to mass loss, CNO processed material is brought to the surface (Chiosi et al., 1978; de Loore et al., 1978; Maeder, 1980).

Type
Session V - Mass Loss and Stellar Evolution: Massive Stars
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 59: Effects of Mass Loss on Stellar Evolution , 1981 , pp. 293 - 296
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1981

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