Topic

Stellar winds

Streams of ionized gas driven continuously off hot, luminous stars by the pressure of their own radiation.

Current clusters

science1 publisher

Stellar wind speeds fall off sharply below a tenth of solar metallicity in Hubble's 29-star survey

The Utah-led TEMPOS survey took ultraviolet spectra of 29 massive stars in six nearby dwarf galaxies, and at the lowest metallicities the winds slow far faster than the trend measured in more metal-rich stars.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives55
Confidence55

science2 publishers

XRISM clocks wind plasma falling onto the BP Crucis pulsar at 150 kilometres a second

A 16-hour look at the binary caught iron absorption lines sitting below their laboratory energies, and the team takes that shift as gas already on its way onto the neutron star. Rahin says nothing comparable is in the literature.

Publishers:nasa.govphys.org

Reality

Evidence66
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+18
Incentives72
Confidence58