[Mesa-users] stellar wind velocity

Jiri Krticka krticka at monoceros.physics.muni.cz
Wed Oct 13 19:28:23 UTC 2021


Hi Saul,

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Saul A Rappaport wrote:

> 
> 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. 
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).

With best wishes

Jiri


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