Formation of Dust in Hostile Environments — What We Learn from Observing Wolf-Rayet Stars

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Jul 1997

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Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 251, Issue 1-2, pp. 321-331

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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The formation of dust in Wolf-Rayet stellar winds presents challenges to our understanding on account of the stars' strong UV radiation fields. These would heat the dust grains to sublimation unless they were shielded or restricted to significant distances (˜ 100 AU) from the stars where the wind densities appear to be too low to allow dust formation. Valuable clues are provided by observations of episodic dust formation on different mass- and time-scales, especially major outbursts modulated by orbital motion in binaries. Wind inhomogeneities on all scales — global wind-compressed zones arising from stellar rotation, high-density wakes produced in colliding-wind binaries and smaller clumps all appear to be significant. The observational evidence for these effects is reviewed.

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