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The X-ray history of WR 140 in modest comparison with the radio

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Andy M.T. Pollock ,
Mike F. Corcoran ,
Ian R. Stevens  and
the XMEGA group
Andy M.T. Pollock
Affiliation:
Computer & Scientific Co. Ltd., 230 Graham Road, Sheffield S10 3GS, England ISO Science Operations Centre, Astrophysics Division, ESA-SSD, Villafranca, Apartado 50727, E-28080 Madrid, Spain
Mike F. Corcoran
Affiliation:
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA Universities Space Research Association, 7501 Forbes Blvd., Ste 206, Seabrook, MD 20706, USA
Ian R. Stevens
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, England
the XMEGA group
Affiliation:
http://lheawww.gsfc.nasa.gov/users/corcoran/xmega/xmega.html

Abstract

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We present the X-ray lightcurve of the canonical colliding-wind binary WR 140 from the time of the last periastron through late 1997. Variations in column density, and intrinsic and absorbed X-ray flux agree well with the expectations of colliding wind theory in which the winds from the stars are spherically symmetric.

Type
Part 3. Interaction of Wolf-Rayet stars and other hot massive stars with their environment: colliding winds and ring nebulae
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 193: Wolf-Rayet Phenomena in Massive Stars and Starburst Galaxies , 1999 , pp. 388 - 389
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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