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Gabriela Montes, Ricardo F. González, Jorge Cantó, Miguel A. Pérez-Torres & Antonio Alberdi

Thermal Radio Emission from Radiative Shocks in Colliding Stellar Winds

(Volume 80 - Année 2011)
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Abstract

We present a semi-analytic model for computing the thermal radio continuum emission from radiative shocks within colliding wind binaries. Assuming a thin shell approximation, we determine the contribution of the wind collision region (WCR) to the total thermal emission for close binaries. We investigate the effect of the binary separation and the stellar wind parameters on the total spectrum. In addition, we point out the relevance of taking into account this contribution for the correct interpretation of the observations, and the accuracy of the stellar wind parameters derived from them.

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Gabriela Montes, Ricardo F. González, Jorge Cantó, Miguel A. Pérez-Torres & Antonio Alberdi, «Thermal Radio Emission from Radiative Shocks in Colliding Stellar Winds», Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège [En ligne], Volume 80 - Année 2011, 704 - 708 URL : https://popups.ulg.ac.be/0037-9565/index.php?id=3175.

About: Gabriela Montes

Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain

About: Ricardo F. González

Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica, CRyA-UNAM, Morelia, Mexico

About: Jorge Cantó

Instituto de Astronomía, IA-UNAM, Mexico, D.F., Mexico

About: Miguel A. Pérez-Torres

Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain

About: Antonio Alberdi

Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain