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We provide an up-to-date summary of the current observational and theoretical studies of stellar bow-shock sources close to the Galactic centre. The symmetry axis of a bow shock provides the information on the relative motion of the star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-04 Michal Zajacek , Andreas Eckart , Seyedeh Elaheh Hosseini

Most types of massive stars display X-ray emission that is affected by the properties of their stellar winds. Single non-magnetic OB stars have an X-ray luminosity that scales with their bolometric luminosity and their emission is thought…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Gregor Rauw

In this contribution I summarize our current knowledge of the nature and significance of starburst-driven galactic winds (``superwinds''). Superwinds are complex multiphase outflows of cool, warm, and hot gas, dust, and magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy M. Heckman

The winds of cool luminous AGB stars are commonly assumed to be driven by radiative acceleration of dust grains which form in the extended atmospheres produced by pulsation-induced shock waves. The dust particles gain momentum by absorption…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Susanne Höfner

The bow shocks of runaway stars with strong stellar winds of over 2000 km s$^{-1}$ can serve as particle acceleration sites. The conversion from stellar wind luminosity into particle acceleration power has an efficiency of the same order of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Yukikatsu Terada , Makoto S. Tashiro , Aya Bamba , Ryo Yamazaki , Tomomi Kouzu , Shu Koyama , Hiromi Seta

Pulsars with high spin-down power produce relativistic winds radiating a fraction of the power in the range from radio to gamma-rays in the pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). The rest of the power is dissipated in the interactions of the PWNe with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-30 A. M. Bykov , E. Amato , A. E. Petrov , A. M. Krassilchtchikov , K. P. Levenfish

New axisymmetric (2D) models for dust-driven winds of C-stars are presented which include hydrodynamics with radiation pressure on dust, equilibrium chemistry and time-dependent dust formation with coupled grey Monte Carlo radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter Woitke

Outflows of pre-main-sequence stars drive shocks into molecular material within 0.01 - 1 pc of the young stars. The shock-heated gas emits infrared, millimeter and submillimeter lines of many species including. Dust grains are important…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 T. W. Hartquist , S. Van Loo , S. A. E. G. Falle , P. Caselli , I. Ashmore

Bow shocks generated from the interaction of winds from massive runaway stars with the interstellar medium have been shown to be prominent particle accelerators through recent $\gamma$-ray and radio synchrotron observations. Here, we study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-15 Keito Watanabe , Stefanie Walch , Tim-Eric Rathjen , Jonathan Mackey , Pierre Nürnberger , Philipp Girichidis

The dynamics of the wind-wind collision in massive stellar binaries is investigated using three-dimensional hydrodynamical models which incorporate gravity, the driving of the winds, the orbital motion of the stars, and radiative cooling of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. M. Pittard

Starburst galaxies generate large-scale winds powered by the activity in the star-forming regions located in the galactic disks. Fragmentation of the disk produced by the outbreak of the wind results in the formation of clouds. Bowshocks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-23 Ana Laura Müller , Gustavo E. Romero , Markus Roth

The role of radiative cooling during the evolution of a bow shock was studied in laboratory-astrophysics experiments that are scalable to bow shocks present in jets from young stellar objects. The laboratory bow shock is formed during the…

Bow-shock pulsar wind nebulae are a subset of pulsar wind nebulae that form when the pulsar has high velocity due to the natal kick during the supernova explosion. The interaction between the relativistic wind from the fast-moving pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 Doosoo Yoon , Sebastian Heinz

The molecular richness of fast protostellar jets within 20-100 au of their source, despite strong ultraviolet irradiation, remains a challenge for the models investigated so far. We aim to investigate the effect of interaction between a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 B. Tabone , A. Raga , S. Cabrit , G. Pineau des Forêts

Massive stars blow powerful winds and eventually explode as supernovae. By doing so, they inject energy and momentum in the circumstellar medium, which is pushed away from the star and piles up to form a dense and expanding shell of gas.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Stefano Gabici

Since the detection of non-thermal radio emission from the bow shock of the massive runaway star BD +43$^{\circ}$3654 simple models have predicted high-energy emission, at X and gamma-rays, from these Galactic sources. Observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Maria Victoria del Valle , Martin Pohl

A subset (~ 10%) of massive stars present strong, globally ordered (mostly dipolar) magnetic fields. The trapping and channeling of their stellar winds in closed magnetic loops leads to magnetically confined wind shocks (MCWS), with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-18 Asif ud-Doula , Yael Naze

The winds observed around asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars are generally attributed to radiation pressure on dust, which is formed in the extended dynamical atmospheres of these pulsating, strongly convective stars. Current…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Susanne Höfner , Bernd Freytag

The structure and evolution of wind-blown bubbles (WBBs) around massive stars has primarily been investigated using an energy-conserving model of wind-blown bubbles. While this model is useful in explaining the general properties of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-21 Vikram V. Dwarkadas

Molecular clouds in the interstellar medium suffer gravitational instabilities that lead to the formation of one or multiple stars. A recently formed star inside a cold cloud communicates its gravitational force to the surrounding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mendoza , J. Canto , A. Raga