Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001mnras.324...33b&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 324, Issue 1, pp. 33-50.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Shock Waves, Binaries: Spectroscopic, Stars: Wolf-Rayet, Magellanic Clouds
Scientific paper
A search for evidence of colliding winds is undertaken among the four certain Magellanic Cloud WC/WO spectroscopic binaries found in the companion Paper I, as well as among two Galactic WC/WO binaries of very similar subtype. Two methods of analysis, which allow the determination of orbital inclination and parameters relating to the shock cone from spectroscopic studies of colliding winds, are attempted. In the first method, Lührs' spectroscopic model is fitted to the moderately strong Ciii 5696-Å excess line emission arising in the shock cone for the stars Br22 and WR 9. The four other systems show only very weak Ciii 5696-Å emission. Lührs' model follows well the mean displacement of the line in velocity space, but is unable to reproduce details in the line profile and fails to give a reliable estimate of the orbital inclination. In the second method, an alternative attempt is also made to fit the variation of more global quantities, full width at half-maximum and radial velocity of the excess emission, with phase. This method also gives satisfactory results in a qualitative way, but shows numerical degeneracy with orbital inclination. Colliding wind effects on the very strong Civ 5808-Å Wolf-Rayet emission line, present in all six binaries, are also found to behave qualitatively as expected. After allowing for line enhancement in colliding wind binaries, it now appears that all Magellanic Cloud WC/WO stars occupy a very narrow range in spectral subclass: WC4/WO3.
Bartzakos Peter
Moffat Anthony F. J.
Niemela Virpi S.
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