Dynamics of colliding binary stellar winds - pressure equilibrium models

X-ray and Radio Emission from Colliding Stellar Winds

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 emission in these spectral regions and discuss models which have been developed for the interpretation of this emission. Physical processes which affect the resu...

Radio Emission Models of Colliding - Winds Binariess

Particle Acceleration in the Colliding Winds Binary Wr 140

RESUMEN Favor de proporcionar un resumen en español. If you cannot provide a spanish abstract, the editors will do this. Massive WR+O star systems produce high-temperature, shock-heated plasma where the wind of the WR star and that of its binary companion collide-the wind-collision region (WCR). The WCR is a source of thermal (e.g. hard X-rays) and non-thermal (e.g. synchrotron) emission, the l...

Radio , X - ray , and γ - ray Emission Models of the Colliding Winds Binary WR 140

We use hydrodynamical models of the wind-collision region (WCR) in the archetype colliding-wind system WR140 to determine the spatial and spectral distribution of the radio, X-ray and γ-ray emission from shock accelerated electrons. Our calculations are for orbital phase 0.837 when the observed radio emission is close to maximum. Using the observed thermal X-ray emission at this phase in conjun...

Numerical simulations of stellar winds: polytropic models

We discuss steady-state transonic outflows obtained by direct numerical solution of the hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic equations. We make use of the Versatile Advection Code, a software package for solving systems of (hyperbolic) partial differential equations. We proceed stepwise from a spherically symmetric, isothermal, unmagnetized, non-rotating Parker wind to arrive at axisymmetric, p...