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High-resolution near-IR imaging of the WCD(+OB) environments: pinwheels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Peter G. Tuthill ,
John D. Monnier ,
William C. Danchi  and
Nils H. Turner
Peter G. Tuthill
Affiliation:
School of Physics, Sydney University, NSW 2006, Australia
John D. Monnier
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
William C. Danchi
Affiliation:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, IR Astrophysics, Code 685, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Nils H. Turner
Affiliation:
CHARA Array, Mount Wilson Observatory, Mt. Wilson, CA 91203, USA

Abstract

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A small number of Wolf-Rayet colliding-wind binaries studied at extremely high angular resolution show elegant dust plumes with an intuitive geometry: that of an Archimedian spiral. A great deal of fundamental information on the binary and the winds is encoded, ultimately teaching us about dust formation and wind-wind collision zones in these fascinating systems. New results are presented summarizing a concerted campaign encompassing a number of systems studied with various techniques over the last five years.

Type
Part 1. Atmospheres of Massive Stars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 212: A Massive Star Odyssey: From Main Sequence to Supernova , 2003 , pp. 121 - 129
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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