• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Radio light-curves and circumstellar mapping of the colliding wind binary WR140
  • Contributor: Williams, P.M.; van der Hucht, K.A.; Spoelstra, T.A.Th.; Swaanenvelt, J.P.
  • Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1995
  • Published in: Symposium - International Astronomical Union, 163 (1995), Seite 504-505
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0074180900202532
  • ISSN: 0074-1809
  • Keywords: General Earth and Planetary Sciences ; General Engineering ; General Environmental Science
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  • Description: New observations of the colliding wind Wolf-Rayet WC7+O4-5 binary WR140 (HD 193793) at 6 cm and 21 cm with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope are presented. They show that the 21 cm flux, in particular, rose to a sharp maximum in 1992, lagging about a year behind the 6 cm flux. After maximum, both fell simultaneously. The data are interpreted in terms of the varying circumstellar extinction to a non-thermal source in the wind interaction region due to the winds of both WC and O stars.
  • Access State: Open Access