Modeling interaction of relativistic and nonrelativistic winds in binary system PSR 1259-63/SS2883. I.Hydrodynamical limit

Details Modeling interaction of relativistic and nonrelativistic winds in binary system PSR 1259-63/SS2883. I.Hydrodynamical limit Modeling interaction of relativistic and nonrelativistic winds in binary system PSR 1259-63/SS2883. I.Hydrodynamical limit

2007-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/0710.1961v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 13 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13226.x

In this paper, we present a detailed hydrodynamical study of the properties of the flow produced by the collision of a pulsar wind with the surrounding in a binary system. This work is the first attempt to simulate interaction of the ultrarelativistic flow (pulsar wind) with the nonrelativistic stellar wind. Obtained results show that the wind collision could result in the formation of an "unclosed" (at spatial scales comparable to the binary system size) pulsar wind termination shock even when the stellar wind ram pressure exceeds significantly the pulsar wind kinetical pressure. Moreover, the post-shock flow propagates in a rather narrow region, with very high bulk Lorentz factor ($\gamma\sim100$). This flow acceleration is related to adiabatical losses, which are purely hydrodynamical effects. Interestingly, in this particular case, no magnetic field is required for formation of the ultrarelativistic bulk outflow. The obtained results provide a new interpretation for the orbital variability of radio, X-ray and gamma-ray signals detected from binary pulsar system PSR 1259-63/SS2883.

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