The Impact of Realistic Red Supergiant Mass Loss on Stellar Evolution

Accurate mass-loss rates are essential for meaningful stellar evolutionary models. For massive single stars with initial masses between 8 and 30M (circle dot)the implementation of cool supergiant mass loss in stellar models strongly affects the resulting evolution, and the most commonly used prescription for these cool-star phases is that of de Jager. Recently, we published a new M? M (circle dot), which unlike previous prescriptions does not overestimate M 更多