Abstract: Abstract Mass loss plays a key role in the evolution of massive stars and their environment. High mass-loss events are traced by complex circumstellar ejecta and intricate line profiles across the upper Hertzsprung-Russell diagram for massive stars in different evolutionary stages. The basic physics of radiation-driven stellar wind for hot stars is well understood. However, the driving mechanisms and related instabilities for their enhanced mass-loss episodes and the driving mechanisms for the mass loss of cool stars are still debated. In this review, the mass-loss characteristics and the possible mechanisms will be surveyed for an observational set of prominent massive stellar populations that experience outflows, strong stellar winds, and periods of enhanced and eruptive mass loss; massive young stellar objects, OB-type stars, red supergiants, warm hypergiants, luminous blue variables, and Wolf-Rayet stars.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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