ERC Advanced Grant · 2019
Explaining the winds of cool giant and supergiant stars with global 3D models
Without stellar winds, life as we know it would not exist. Critical elements like carbon are produced inside luminous cool giant stars, transported to the surface by turbulent gas flows, and ejected into interstellar space by massive outflows of gas and dust. Direct evidence for this scenario comes in the form of dust grains produced in the stellar winds, and detected in meteorites by their isotopic composition. Nevertheless, the current understanding of stellar winds is far from sufficient to draw a realistic, quantitative picture of their effects on stellar evolution and their contribution to the enrichment of the interstellar medium with newly-produced elements and dust. Project EXWINGS…
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