X-rays from Colliding Winds in OB Binary System

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May 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996aas...188.1804c&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 188th AAS Meeting, #18.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.849

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Wind collisions in early-type binaries can produce X-ray emitting gas at temperatures of millions of degrees along the collision boundary. Such localized X-ray emission can be a useful probe of the stellar wind dynamics. However, colliding wind emission can be obscured by absorption in the stellar wind material, and by the presence of X-ray emission from the individual stellar components. An important characteristic of colliding-wind X-rays is variability with binary orbital phase. Using data from the ROSAT archive, I find that nearly half of the OB type binaries observed show clear evidence of large-scale phase-dependent X-ray variability, confirming the importance of X-ray production by colliding winds in these systems.

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