Asymmetric Wolf-Rayet winds: implications for GRB afterglows

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2007-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701707v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.Lett.377:L29-L33,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 4 figures, version revised by referee's comments, resubmitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1745-3933.2007.00297.x

Recent observations of Wolf-Rayet (WR) binaries WR151 and WR155 infer that their stellar winds are asymmetric. We show that such asymmetries can alter the stellar-wind bubble structure, bringing the wind-termination shock closer to the WR star. If the wind asymmetry is caused by rotation, the wind density and distance to the wind-termination shock are both decreased along the rotation axis by a factor of a few for the observed equator-to-pole wind density ratio of WR151. If this asymmetry lasts until core-collapse the time taken to reach the wind-termination shock by supernova ejecta or a gamma-ray burst jet is reduced. This leads to a distorted structure of the supernova ejecta and makes it more likely a constant density environment is inferred from gamma-ray burst afterglow observations.

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