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This paper presents an investigation of the X-ray emission associated with the Wolf-Rayet star, WR 48-6, using observations from the XMM Newton and Chandra X-ray telescopes covering two epochs separated by eleven months. The X-ray spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-05 Vishal Jadoliya , Jeewan C Pandey , Anandmayee Tej

Context. WR104 is an emblematic dusty Wolf-Rayet star and the prototypical member of a subgroup hosting spirals that are mainly observable with high-angular resolution techniques. Previous aperture masking observations showed that WR104 is…

The Wolf-Rayet 98a (WR 98a) system is a prime target for interferometric surveys, since its identification as a "rotating pinwheel nebulae", where infrared images display a spiral dust lane revolving with a 1.4 year periodicity. WR 98a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Tom Hendrix , Rony Keppens , Allard Jan van Marle , Peter Camps , Maarten Baes , Zakaria Meliani

A campaign of 35 epochs of milli-arcsec resolution VLBA observations of the archetype collidingwind WR+O star binary system WR140 show the wind-collision region (WCR) as a bow-shaped arc of emission that rotates as the highly eccentric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-06 S. M. Dougherty , V. Trenton , A. J. Beasley

WR 125 is considered as a Colliding Wind Wolf-rayet Binary (CWWB), from which the most recent infrared flux increase was reported between 1990 and 1993. We observed the object four times from November 2016 to May 2017 with Swift and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-31 Takuya Midooka , Yasuharu Sugawara , Ken Ebisawa

Observations of the WC9+OB system WR 65 in the infrared show variations of its dust emission consistent with a period near 4.8~yr, suggesting formation in a colliding-wind binary (CWB) having an elliptical orbit. If we adopt the IR maximum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-05 P. M. Williams , K. A. van der Hucht

Large wind kinetic power of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars make them ideal targets in low radio frequencies to search for non-thermal emission due to relativistic particle acceleration. In this paper, we present observations of two WR stars, WR 114…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-12 Anindya Saha , Anandmayee Tej , Santiago del Palacio , Michaël De Becker , Paula Benaglia , Ishwara Chandra CH , Prachi Prajapati

New measurements using radio and plasma-wave instruments in interplanetary space have shown that nanometer-scale dust, or nanodust, is a significant contributor to the total mass in interplanetary space. Better measurements of nanodust will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Le Chat , A. Zaslavsky , N. Meyer-Vernet , K. Issautier , S. Belheouane , F. Pantellini , M. Maksimovic , I. Zouganelis , S. D. Bale , J. C. Kasper

An X-ray study of a deeply embedded Wolf-Rayet star WR 121a has been carried out using long-term (spanning over ~12 years) archival observations from Chandra and XMM-Newton. For the first time, a periodic variation with a period of 4.1 days…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Bharti Arora , J. C. Pandey

A lunar occultation event of the Wolf-Rayet star WR 112 (type WC9) has been observed simultaneously from two independent telescopes at lambda = 2.2microns, allowing us to investigate this source with an angular resolution of approx 0.003…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 S. Ragland , A. Richichi

The striking broad emission line spectroscopic appearance of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars has long defied analysis, due to the extreme physical conditions within their line and continuum forming regions. Recently, model atmosphere studies have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Paul A Crowther

One of the main properties of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars is a very intense outflow of gas. No less than 40\% \ of WR stars belong to binary systems. Young massive O and B stars are the secondary components of such systems. OB stars also have an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir V. Usov

We present the first visual orbit for the nitrogen-rich Wolf-Rayet binary, WR 133 (WN5o + O9I) based on observations made with the CHARA Array and the MIRC-X combiner. This orbit represents the first visual orbit for a WN star and only the…

Eta Carinae shows broad peaks in near-infrared (IR) JHKL photometry, roughly correlated with times of periastron passage in the eccentric binary system. After correcting for secular changes attributed to reduced extinction from the thinning…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Nathan Smith

We present a study of the molecular CO gas and mid/far infrared radiation arising from the environment surrounding the Wolf-Rayet (W-R) star 130. We use the multi-wavelength data to analyze the properties of the dense gas and dust, and its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. Cichowolski , L. A. Suad , S. Pineault , A. Noriega-Crespo , E. M. Arnal , N. Flagey

We study the hydrodynamical behavior occurring in the turbulent interaction zone of a fast moving red supergiant star, where the circumstellar and interstellar material collide. In this wind-interstellar medium collision, the familiar bow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-31 Allard Jan van Marle , Zakaria Meliani , Rony Keppens , Leen Decin

We examine the dependence of the wind-wind collision and subsequent X-ray emission from the massive WR+O star binary WR~22 on the acceleration of the stellar winds, radiative cooling, and orbital motion. Simulations were performed with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 E. R. Parkin , E. Gosset

We present a characterization of the dust in the Wolf-Rayet (WR) nebula RCW 58 around the WN8h star WR 40 using archival infrared (IR) observations from WISE and Herschel and radio observations from ATCA. We selected two clumps, free from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-25 P. Jiménez-Hernández , S. J. Arthur , J. A. Toalá , A. P. Marston

WR 20a is the most massive close-in binary known in our Galaxy. It is composed of two $\approx$80 M$_\odot$ Wolf-Rayet stars with a short period of $\approx$3.7 days in the open cluster Westerlund 2. As such, WR 20a presents us with a…

We present multi-epoch high-resolution optical spectroscopy ($R \simeq 80{,}000$) of the emission-line object NaSt1 to test its proposed binary nature, along with long-term multiband photometry, mid-infrared spectroscopy, and spatially…

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