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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

Context. In binary star systems, the winds from the two components impact each other, leading to strong shocks and regions of enhanced density and temperature. Potentially habitable circumbinary planets must continually be exposed to these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. P. Johnstone , A. Zhilkin , E. Pilat-Lohinger , D. Bisikalo , M. Güdel , S. Eggl

Stellar winds shape the evolution of stars through the loss of mass. In binary systems, they also shape the stars' evolution by modifying the orbit. In this paper, we use hydrodynamic simulations to study the emergence of nearly-isothermal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Morgan MacLeod , Abraham Loeb

Binary systems containing a massive star and a non-accreting pulsar present strong interaction between the stellar and the pulsar winds. The properties of this interaction, which largely determine the non-thermal radiation in these systems,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-16 Xavier Paredes-Fortuny , Valentí Bosch-Ramon , Manel Perucho , Marc Ribó

The supersonic stellar and disk winds possessed by massive young stellar objects will produce shocks when they collide against the interior of a pre-existing bipolar cavity (resulting from an earlier phase of jet activity). The shock heated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-03 E. R. Parkin , J. M. Pittard , M. G. Hoare , N. J. Wright , J. J. Drake

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,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Gregor Rauw

The hydrodynamics of the interaction of pulsar and stellar winds in binary systems harboring a pulsar and its impact on the nonthermal radiation of the binary pulsar PSR B1259-63/SS2883 is discussed. The collision of an ultrarelativistic…

Several gamma-ray binaries show extended X-ray emission that may be associated to interactions of an outflow with the medium. Some of these systems are, or may be, high-mass binaries harboring young nonaccreting pulsars, in which the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 V. Bosch-Ramon , M. V. Barkov

In this paper, we present a detailed hydrodynamical study of the properties of the flow produced by the collision of a pulsar wind with the surrounding in a binary system. This work is the first attempt to simulate interaction of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. V. Bogovalov , D. Khangulyan , A. V. Koldoba , G. V. Ustyugova , F. Aharonian

We perform numerical simulations to investigate the stellar wind from interacting binary stars. Our aim is to find analytical formulae describing the outflow structure. In each binary system the more massive star is in the asymptotic giant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 Luis C. Bermúdez-Bustamante , G. García-Segura , W. Steffen , L. Sabin

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

The winds from a non-accreting pulsar and a massive star in a binary system collide forming a bow-shaped shock structure. The Coriolis force induced by orbital motion deflects the shocked flows, strongly affecting their dynamics. We study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 V. Bosch-Ramon , M. V. Barkov , D. Khangulyan , M. Perucho

We present two-dimensional hydrodynamic models of thermally driven winds from highly irradiated, close-in extra-solar planets. We adopt a very simple treatment of the radiative heating processes at the base of the wind, and instead focus on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 James M. Stone , Daniel Proga

The collision of the hypersonic winds in early-type binaries produces shock heated gas, which radiates thermal X-ray emission, and relativistic electrons, which emit nonthermal radio emission. We review our current understanding of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Pittard , S. M. Dougherty , R. F. Coker , M. F. Corcoran

We investigate the structure and X-ray emission from the colliding stellar winds in massive star binaries. We find that the opening angle of the contact discontinuity (CD) is overestimated by several formulae in the literature at very small…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 J. M. Pittard , B. Dawson

2D axis-symmetric hydrodynamical simulations are presented which explore the interaction of stellar and disk winds with surrounding infalling cloud material. The star, and its accompanying disk, blow winds inside a cavity cleared out by an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 E. R. Parkin , J. M. Pittard , M. G. Hoare , N. J. Wright , J. J. Drake

Using fully three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, we investigate the effect of the Coriolis force on the hydrodynamic and observable properties of colliding wind binary systems. To make the calculations tractable, we assume adiabatic,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. Nicole Lemaster , James M. Stone , Thomas A. Gardiner

The early phase of the hydrodynamic evolution following collision of two stars is analyzed. Two strong shocks propagate at a constant velocity (which is a small fraction of the velocity of the approaching stars) from the contact surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Doron Kushnir , Boaz Katz

Bathed in intense ionizing radiation, close-in gaseous planets undergo hydrodynamic atmospheric escape, which ejects the upper extent of their atmospheres into the interplanetary medium. Ultraviolet detections of escaping gas around…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 John R. McCann , Ruth A. Murray-Clay , Kaitlin Kratter , Mark R. Krumholz

The powerful wind-wind collision in massive star binaries creates a region of high temperature plasma and accelerates particles to relativistic energies. I briefly summarize the hydrodynamics of the wind-wind interaction and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-21 J. M. Pittard
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