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    A new mass-loss rate prescription for red supergiants

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    Beasor, Emma R
    Davies, Ben
    SMITH, NATHAN
    van Loon, Jacco Th
    Gehrz, Robert D
    Figer, Donald F
    Affiliation
    Univ Arizona, Steward Observ
    Issue Date
    2020-02-05
    Keywords
    stars: evolution
    stars: massive
    stars: mass-loss
    supergiants
    galaxies: clusters: individual
    
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    OXFORD UNIV PRESS
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    Emma R Beasor, Ben Davies, Nathan Smith, Jacco Th van Loon, Robert D Gehrz, Donald F Figer, A new mass-loss rate prescription for red supergiants, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 492, Issue 4, March 2020, Pages 5994–6006, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa255
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    MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
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    Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society
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    This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.
    Abstract
    Evolutionary models have shown the substantial effect that strong mass-loss rates (Ms) can have on the fate of massive stars. Red supergiant (RSG) mass-loss is poorly understood theoretically, and so stellar models rely on purely empirical M luminosity relations to calculate evolution, Empirical prescriptions usually scale with luminosity and effective temperature, but M should also depend on the current mass and hence the surface gravity of the star, yielding more than one possible M for the same position on the Itertzsprung Russell diagram. One can solve this degeneracy by measuring M for RSGs that reside in clusters, where age and initial mass (Minis) are known. In this paper we derive M values and luminosities for RSGs in two clusters, NGC 2004 and RSGC1. Using newly derived Minis measurements, we combine the results with those of clusters with a range of ages and derive an Minis-dependent M prescription. When comparing this new prescription to the treatment of mass-loss currently implemented in evolutionary models, we find models drastically overpredict the total mass-loss, by up to a factor of 20. Importantly, the most massive RSGs experience the largest downward revision in their mass-loss rates, drastically changing the impact of wind mass-loss on their evolution. Our results suggest that for most initial masses of RSG progenitors, quiescent mass-loss during the RSG phase is not effective at removing a significant fraction of the H-envelope prior to core-collapse, and we discuss the implications of this for stellar evolution and observations of SNe and SN progenitors.
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    0035-8711
    DOI
    10.1093/mnras/staa255
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