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Wind-wind collision effects in close massive WR+O binaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

S.V. Marchenko
S.V. Marchenko*
Affiliation:
Département de Physique, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. A, Montréal, Québec, and Observatoire du mont Mégantic, Canada

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A detailed description of the wind-wind collision (WWC) zones in the Wolf-Rayet binaries V444 Cyg (WN5+O6III-V, P = 4.21 d) and CX Cep (WN5+O5V, P = 2.13 d) is presented. In V444 Cyg, parameters of the WWC zone can be derived from variations of HeI line profiles. There is some evidence for a highly unstable character of the WWC zone. In CX Cep, the complicated dependence of equivalent widths for emission lines of different ionization potential on orbital phase can be explained by a combination of several factors, e.g., (a) additional ionization from the bow shock region; (b) reheating of the WR wind by the O-star companion; and (c) an emission component arising in the WWC region. Some preliminary indications of WWC are revealed in the WR+OB system CQ Cep (WN7+O9I-II?) with the shortest known orbital period: P = 1.64 d.

Type
Session VII - Hydrodynamics and high-energy physics of colliding winds
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 163: Wolf-Rayet Stars: Binaries, Colliding Winds, Evolution , 1995 , pp. 397 - 405
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995 

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