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Radiative Levitation in Massive Stars: A self-consistent approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Durand D'souza  and
Achim Weiss
Durand D'souza
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany email: durand@mpa-garching.mpg.de
Achim Weiss
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany email: durand@mpa-garching.mpg.de
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Abstract

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In B stars, the transportation of metals such as iron due to radiative levitation is thought to trigger sub-surface convection, which may lead to significant stellar pulsations through the iron-induced kappa mechanism (Pamyatnykh et al. 2004). The main goal of this work is to model the evolution of these stars by treating radiative levitation in an accurate and efficient manner in order to enable rapid asteroseismic analysis using the Opacity Project data and codes (Seaton 2005) with the GARching STellar Evolution Code (Weiss & Schlattl 2008).

Keywords

stars: abundancesstars: evolutionstars: interiorsstars: oscillations (including pulsations)diffusionatomic processes

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