Colliding winds from early-type stars in binary systems

Details Colliding winds from early-type stars in binary systems Colliding winds from early-type stars in binary systems

Feb 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992apj...386..265s&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 386, Feb. 10, 1992, p. 265-287.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

365

Binary Stars, Early Stars, Plasma Interactions, Stellar Winds, Wolf-Rayet Stars, X Ray Stars, Hydrodynamic Equations, Radiative Transfer, Shock Wave Interaction, Stellar Luminosity, Stellar Models

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The dynamics of the wind and shock structure formed by the wind collision in early-type binary systems is examined by means of a 2D hydrodynamics code, which self-consistently accounts for radiative cooling, and represents a significant improvement over previous attempts to model these systems. The X-ray luminosity and spectra of the shock-heated region, acounting for wind attenuation and the influence of different abundances on the resultant level and spectra of X-ray emission are calculated. A variety of dynamical instabilities that are found to dominate the intershock region is examined. These instabilities are found to be particularly important when postshock material is able to cool. These instabilities disrupt the postshock flow and add a time variability of order 10 percent to the X-ray luminosity. The X-ray spectrum of these systems is found to vary with the nuclear abundances of winds. These theoretical models are used to study several massive binary systems, in particular V444 Cyg and HD 193793.

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