Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-03-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, requires newpasp.sty, from "Interacting Winds from Massive Stars," Isle de la Madeleine(Quebec, CA)
Scientific paper
This paper discusses our ongoing efforts to characterize dust-enshrouded Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars in the radio and infrared. We have used the Very Large Array to measure the broadband radio spectrum of WR stars in suspected binary systems and discovered non-thermal emission, which is usually attributed to colliding winds. In addition, infrared imaging using aperture masking interferometry on the Keck-I telescope has resolved the dust shells around a number of WR stars with K-magnitudes brighter than ~6. Although this admittedly small study suffers from selection bias, we note that all the dust-enshrouded WR stars with radio detections show evidence for colliding winds, supporting the theory that wind compression in a binary system is necessary for efficient dust production. A consequence of this hypothesis is that virtually all WC8-10 stars must be in binaries, since most are dusty. Single-star and binary stellar evolution models will have to be modified to accommodate this observational result if confirmed.
Danchi William C.
Greenhill Lincoln J.
Monnier John D.
Tuthill Peter G.
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