{
  "id": "1701.08618",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2017-01-30T14:34:46.000Z",
  "updated": "2017-01-30T14:34:46.000Z",
  "title": "Towards a unified view of inhomogeneous stellar winds in isolated supergiant stars and supergiant high mass X-ray binaries",
  "authors": [
    "Silvia Martínez-Núñez",
    "Peter Kretschmar",
    "Enrico Bozzo",
    "Lidia M. Oskinova",
    "Joachim Puls",
    "Lara Sidoli",
    "Jon Olof Sundqvist",
    "Pere Blay",
    "Maurizio Falanga",
    "Felix Fürst",
    "Ángel Gímenez-García",
    "Ingo Kreykenbohm",
    "Matthias Kühnel",
    "Andreas Sander",
    "José Miguel Torrejón",
    "Jörn Wilms"
  ],
  "comment": "Accepted for publication by the Journal of Space Science Reviews, Springer",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "Massive stars, at least $\\sim$ 10 times more massive than the Sun, have two key properties that make them the main drivers of evolution of star clusters, galaxies, and the Universe as a whole. On the one hand, the outer layers of massive stars are so hot that they produce most of the ionizing ultraviolet radiation of galaxies; in fact, the first massive stars helped to re-ionize the Universe after its Dark Ages. Another important property of massive stars are the strong stellar winds and outflows they produce. This mass loss, and finally the explosion of a massive star as a supernova or a gamma-ray burst, provide a significant input of mechanical and radiative energy into the interstellar space. These two properties together make massive stars one of the most important cosmic engines: they trigger the star formation and enrich the interstellar medium with heavy elements, that ultimately leads to formation of Earth-like rocky planets and the development of complex life. The study of massive star winds is thus a truly multidisciplinary field and has a wide impact on different areas of astronomy. [...] This detailed review summarises the current knowledge on the theory and observations of winds from massive stars, as well as on observations and accretion processes in wind-fed high mass X-ray binaries. The aim is to combine in the near future all available theoretical diagnostics and observational measurements to achieve a unified picture of massive star winds in isolated objects and in binary systems.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2017-01-30T14:34:46.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "supergiant high mass x-ray binaries",
      "massive star",
      "isolated supergiant stars",
      "inhomogeneous stellar winds",
      "unified view"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}