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Pulsars out of their parent SNR directly interact with the ISM producing so called Bow-Shock Pulsar Wind Nebulae, the relativistic equivalents of the heliosphere/heliotail system. These have been directly observed from Radio to X-ray, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-09 N. Bucciantini , B. Olmi , L. Del Zanna

Stellar bow shocks are observed in a variety of interstellar environments and are shaped by the conditions of gas in the interstellar medium (ISM). In situ measurements of turbulent density fluctuations near stellar bow shocks are only…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-15 S. K. Ocker , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , T. Dolch

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

X-rays give direct evidence of instabilities, time-variable structure, and shock heating in the winds of O stars. The observed broad X-ray emission lines provide information about the kinematics of shock-heated wind plasma, enabling us to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 David H. Cohen , Emma E. Wollman , Maurice A. Leutenegger

The interaction of jets in High-Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs) with the strong winds driven by the hot companion star in the vicinity of the compact object is fundamental to understand the jet dynamics, non-thermal emission and long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 J. López-Miralles , M. Perucho , J. M. Martí , S. Migliari , V. Bosch-Ramon

Type IIn and related supernovae show evidence for an interaction with a dense circumstellar medium that produces most of the supernova luminosity. X-ray emission from shock heated gas is crucial for the energetics of the interaction and can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Roger A. Chevalier , Christopher M. Irwin

X-ray and radio data recently acquired as part of a project to study Cyg OB2#9 are used to constrain physical models of the binary system, providing in-depth knowledge about the wind-wind collision and the thermal, and non-thermal, emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-08 E. R. Parkin , J. M. Pittard , Y. Nazé , R. Blomme

We show that strong bow shocks are turbulent and non-universal near the head, but asymptote to a universal steady, self-similar, and analytically solvable flow in the downstream. The turbulence is essentially 3D, and has been confirmed by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-23 Marcus DuPont , Andrei Gruzinov , Andrew MacFadyen

Many pulsars propagate through the interstellar medium (ISM) with supersonic velocities, and their pulsar winds interact with the interstellar medium (ISM), forming bow shocks and magnetotails (PWN). We model the propagation of pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 O. D. Toropina , M. M. Romanova , R. V. E. Lovelace

Line-driven wind instability is expected to cause small-scale wind inhomogeneities, X-ray emission, and wind line profile variability. The instability can already develop around the sonic point if it is initiated close to the photosphere…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Jiri Krticka , Achim Feldmeier

Binaries with hot massive components are strong X-ray sources. Besides the intrinsic X-ray emission of individual binary members originating in their winds, X-ray emission stems from the accretion on the compact companion or from wind…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Jiri Krticka , Jiri Kubat , Iva Krtickova

Massive stars that travel at supersonic speeds can create bow shocks as their stellar winds interact with the surrounding interstellar medium. These bow shocks - prominent sites for mechanical feedback of individual massive stars - are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 J. van den Eijnden , S. Mohamed , F. Carotenuto , S. Motta , P. Saikia , D. R. A. Williams-Baldwin

Accretion and outflows are astrophysical phenomena observed across a wide range of objects, from white dwarfs to supermassive black holes. Developing a complete picture of these processes requires complementary studies across this full…

I model the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) randomly heated and shocked by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters we understand to be typical of the solar neighbourhood. The simulations are 3D extending…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-15 Frederick Gent

In this paper we present high-resolution hydrodynamical models of warm ionized clouds embedded in a superwind, and compare the OVI and soft X-ray properties to the existing observational data. These models include thermal conduction, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Marcolini , D. K. Strickland , A. D'Ercole , T. M. Heckman , C. G. Hoopes

A number of X-ray binaries exhibit clear evidence for the presence of disk winds in the high/soft state. A promising driving mechanism for these outflows is mass loss driven by the thermal expansion of X-ray heated material in the outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Nick Higginbottom , Daniel Proga , Christian Knigge , Knox S. Long

Several different methods are regularly used to infer the properties of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) using atomic hydrogen (H I) 21cm absorption and emission spectra. In this work, we study various techniques used for inferring ISM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-27 Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee , Nirupam Roy , Prateek Sharma , Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath

Context: Runaway stars produce bowshocks that are usually observed at infrared (IR) wavelengths. Non-thermal radio emission has been detected so far only from the bowshock of BD+43{\deg}3654, whereas the detection of non-thermal radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-12 S. del Palacio , V. Bosch-Ramon , A. L. Müller , G. E. Romero

We model millisecond pulsars winds colliding with radiatively-driven companion winds in black widow and redback systems. For the redbacks, the geometry of this intrabinary shock (IBS) is quite sensitive to the expected equatorial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-17 D. Kandel , Roger W. Romani , Hongjun An

We present hydrodynamical simulations, using a 2-D two fluid model, of bow shocks in a representative regime for pulsar wind driven bow-shock nebulae. We also investigate the behaviour of a passive toroidal magnetic field wounded around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Bucciantini