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Radio light-curves and circumstellar mapping of the colliding wind binary WR140

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

P.M. Williams
Affiliation:
1 Royal Observatories, Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.
K.A. van der Hucht
Affiliation:
2 Space Research Organization Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands
T.A.Th. Spoelstra
Affiliation:
3 Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
J.P. Swaanenvelt
Affiliation:
2 Space Research Organization Netherlands, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Abstract

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New observations of the colliding wind Wolf-Rayet WC7+O4-5 binary WR140 (HD 193793) at 6 cm and 21 cm with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope are presented. They show that the 21 cm flux, in particular, rose to a sharp maximum in 1992, lagging about a year behind the 6 cm flux. After maximum, both fell simultaneously. The data are interpreted in terms of the varying circumstellar extinction to a non-thermal source in the wind interaction region due to the winds of both WC and O stars.

Type
Session VII - poster summaries
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995 

References

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