Wind Anisotropy Revealed by Dust Formation around Wolf-Rayet Stars

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Feb 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995ap%26ss.224..267w&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 224, Issue 1-2, pp. 267-270

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Circumstellar Grains, Stars: Wolf-Rayet, Stars: Binary

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The presence of heated circumstellar dust around WC type Wolf-Rayet stars requires the episodic or persistent condensation of carbon grains in their stellar winds. In order to survive in the stars' strong ultraviolet radiation fields, the grains must be located at least 100AU from the stellar surfaces. The densities in isotropic winds at such large distances are too low to allow grain growth and anisotropies such as clumps, disks or wind-collision wakes in colliding-wind binary systems are required to provide grain nurseries. Observational evidence for such features in grain-forming W-R stars is examined.

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