On the Hαbehaviour of blue supergiants: rise and fall over the bi-stability jump

Context. The evolutionary state of blue supergiants is still unknown. Stellar wind mass loss is one of the dominant processes determining the evolution of massive stars, and it may provide clues to the evolutionary properties of blue supergiants. As the Hα line is the most oft-used mass-loss tracer in the OB-star regime, we investigate Hα line formation as a function of Teff.