SS433: the second known Wolf-Rayet X-ray binary after Cygnus X-3

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Jun 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002sf2a.conf..317f&link_type=abstract

SF2A-2002: Semaine de l'Astrophysique Francaise, meeting held in Paris, France, June 24-29, 2002, Eds.: F. Combes and D. Barret,

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We present mid-IR spectrophotometric observations of SS433 with ISOPHOT at four different orbital phases in 1996 and 1997. The HeI+HeII lines in both spectra of SS433 and the Wolf-Rayet star WR147, a wind-colliding WN8+BO5 binary system, closely match. The 2.5-12 micron continuum radiation is due to an expanding wind free-free emission in an intermediate case between optically thick and optically thin regime. A rough mass loss rate evaluation gives about 1.4 10**{-4} M-sun/yr. Results are consistent with a Wolf-Rayet-like companion to the compact object in SS433. A similar study for Cygnus X-3, also observed with ISOPHOT, confirms the Wolf-Rayet like nature of its companion, although with a later WN type than previously suggested.

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