NONRELATIVISCENT WHITE HOLES - A NEW CLASS OF ASTROPHYSICAL OBJECTS

<jats:p>It is known that most stars lose mass through stellar wind. Thermal mass loss is impossible at photospheric and chromospheric temperatures. Coronal temperatures make the thermal contribution significantly significant, but require additional mechanisms for particle acceleration from the chromosphere to the corona, such as radiation pressure, MHD, anomalous strong ambipolar diffusion, or Coulomb acceleration, which go beyond the hydrostatic model. A comparison of the mass loss rate in the tails of the distribution function with actual observed values for increasing main-sequence stars, even at coronal temperatures, indicates an increasing excess of actual mass loss over the gravitational limit. All stars exhibiting a consistently high mass loss rate exceeding gravitational confinement can be classified as nonrelativistic white holes. Unlike relativistic white holes, a nonrelativistic white hole loses matter from its surface due to the hyperthermal acceleration of atoms above the photosphere.</jats:p>