Issue |
A&A
Volume 478, Number 3, February II 2008
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Page(s) | 769 - 778 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20078802 | |
Published online | 04 December 2007 |
The circumstellar medium around a rapidly rotating, chemically homogeneously evolving, possible gamma-ray burst progenitor
1
Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University, PO Box 80000, 3508 TA, Utrecht, The Netherlands e-mail: [A.vanMarle;N.Langer]@astro.uu.nl
2
Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, 102 Sharp Laboratory, Newark, 19716 DE, Delaware, USA e-mail: marle@udel.edu
3
Astronomical Institute “Anton Pannekoek”, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands e-mail: scyoon@science.uva.nl
4
Instituto de Astronomía-UNAM, APDO Postal 877, Ensenada, 22800 Baja California, Mexico e-mail: ggs@astrosen.unam.mx
Received:
5
October
2007
Accepted:
30
October
2007
Context.Rapidly rotating, chemically homogeneously evolving massive stars are considered to be progenitors of long gamma-ray bursts.
Aims.We present numerical simulations of the evolution of the circumstellar medium around a rapidly rotating 20 star at a metallicity of
. Its rotation is fast enough to produce
quasi-chemically homogeneous evolution. While conventionally, a star of 20
would not evolve into a Wolf-Rayet stage, the considered model evolves from the main sequence directly to the helium main sequence.
Methods.We use the time-dependent wind parameters, such as mass loss rate, wind velocity and rotation-induced wind anisotropy from the evolution model as input for a 2D hydrodynamical simulation.
Results.While the outer edge of the pressure-driven circumstellar bubble is spherical, the circumstellar medium close to the star shows strong non-spherical features during and after the periods of near-critical rotation.
Conclusions.We conclude that the circumstellar medium around rapidly rotating massive stars differs considerably from the surrounding material of non-rotating stars of similar mass.
Multiple blue-shifted high velocity absorption components
in gamma-ray burst afterglow spectra are predicted.
As a consequence of near critical rotation and short
stellar evolution time scales during the last few thousand years of the star's life,
we find a strong deviation of the circumstellar density profile in the polar direction from the density profile normally associated with stellar winds close to the star.
Key words: gamma-rays: bursts / hydrodynamics / ISM: bubbles / stars: winds, outflows / stars: Wolf-Rayet
© ESO, 2008
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