Interacting winds in massive binaries
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2015-06-03 v1
Abstract
Massive stars feature highly energetic stellar winds that interact whenever two such stars are bound in a binary system. The signatures of these interactions are nowadays found over a wide range of wavelengths, including the radio domain, the optical band, as well as X-rays and even gamma-rays. A proper understanding of these effects is thus important to derive the fundamental parameters of the components of massive binaries from spectroscopic and photometric observations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1401.3508,
title = {Interacting winds in massive binaries},
author = {Gregor Rauw},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1401.3508},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Proceedings of the conference "Setting a new standard in the analysis of binary stars", Leuven, Sept 2013, EAS Publication Series, in press