| Download | - View author's version: Particle acceleration in the colliding wind binary WR 140 (PDF, 215 KiB)
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| Author | Search for: Pittard, J. M.; Search for: Dougherty, S. M.1 |
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| Editor | Search for: Benaglia, P.; Search for: Bosch, G. L.; Search for: Cappa, C. E. |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada
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| Format | Text, Article |
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| Conference | Massive Stars: Fundamental Parameters and Circumstellar Interactions |
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| Abstract | 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 latter arising from electrons and ions accelerated to relativistic energies. These colliding wind binaries (CWBs) provide an excellent laboratory for the study of particle acceleration at higher mass, photon and magnetic energy densities than exist in SNRs. Recent models of the non-thermal (NT) emission from WR40 have provided insight into this process. |
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| Publication date | 2008 |
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| Peer reviewed | Yes |
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| NPARC number | 13053747 |
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| Record identifier | 15d8b660-0ddb-4201-bfbc-7aa50147edff |
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| Record created | 2009-11-25 |
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| Record modified | 2021-02-15 |
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