[Mesa-users] stellar wind velocity

Saul A Rappaport sar at mit.edu
Wed Oct 13 19:30:36 UTC 2021


Hi Jiri:

>> A final question would be the following.  If I’m interested in the terminal
>> wind speed is it safe to simply ignore the speed given by v_wind_Km_per_s?
>> 
> 
> I would ignore this if you are interested just in the terminal wind speed.

	Thanks again for the confirmation.

> The terminal wind speed should scale with escape speed. This seems to be roughly the case also in red giants (Dupree et al. 2009AJ....138.1485D).

	Yes, this is what I was assuming.


			Saul




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