Line profiles variations from atmospheric eclipses: Constraints on the wind structure in Wolf-Rayet stars

Details Line profiles variations from atmospheric eclipses: Constraints on the wind structure in Wolf-Rayet stars Line profiles variations from atmospheric eclipses: Constraints on the wind structure in Wolf-Rayet stars

Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994apj...436..859a&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 436, no. 2, p. 859-870

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Radiative Transfer, Stellar Mass, Stellar Models, Stellar Winds, Wolf-Rayet Stars, Absorption Spectra, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Computerized Simulation, Mathematical Models

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Binary systems in which one of the components has a stellar wind may present a phenomenon known as 'wind' or 'atmospheric eclipse', in which that wind occults the luminous disk of the companion. The enhanced absorption profile, relative to the spectrum at uneclipsed orbital phases, can be be modeled to yield constraints on the spatial structure of the eclipsing wind. A new, very efficient approach to the radiative transfer problem, which makes no requirements with respect to monotonicity of the velocity gradient or size of that gradient, is presented. The technique recovers both the comoving frame calculation and the Sobolev approximation in the appropiate limits. Sample computer simulations of the line profile variations induced by wind eclipses are presented. It is shown that the location of the wind absorption features in frequency is a diagnostic tool for identifying the size of the wind acceleration region. Comparison of the model profile variations with the observed variations in the Wolf-Rayet (W-R)+6 binary system V444 Cyg illustrate how the method can be used to derive information on the structure of the wind of the W-R star constrain the size of the W-R core radius.

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