The orbit and stellar masses of the archetype colliding-wind binary WR 140
Abstract
We present updated orbital elements for the Wolf-Rayet (WR) binary WR\,140 (HD\,193793; WC7pd + O5.5fc). The new orbital elements were derived using previously published measurements along with {\color{black}160} new radial velocity measurements across the 2016 periastron passage of WR 140. Additionally, four new measurements of the orbital astrometry were collected with the CHARA Array. With these measurements, we derive stellar masses of and . We also include a discussion of the evolutionary history of this system from the Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis (BPASS) model grid to show that this WR star likely formed primarily through mass loss in the stellar winds, with only a moderate amount of mass lost or transferred through binary interactions.
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@article{arxiv.2101.10563,
title = {The orbit and stellar masses of the archetype colliding-wind binary WR 140},
author = {Joshua D. Thomas and Noel D. Richardson and J. J. Eldridge and Gail H. Schaefer and John D. Monnier and Hugues Sana and Anthony F. J. Moffat and Peredur Williams and Michael F. Corcoran and Ian R. Stevens and Gerd Weigelt and Farrah D. Zainol and Narsireddy Anugu and Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin and Theo ten Brummelaar and Fran Campos and Andrew Couperus and Claire L. Davies and Jacob Ennis and Thomas Eversberg and Oliver Garde and Tyler Gardner and Joan Guarro Fló and Stefan Kraus and Aaron Labdon and Cyprien Lanthermann and Robin Leadbeater and T. Lester and Courtney Maki and Brendan McBride and Dogus Ozuyar and J. Ribeiro and Benjamin Setterholm and Berthold Stober and Mackenna Wood and Uwe Zurmühl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.10563},
year = {2021}
}
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10 pages, 5 figures