A colliding-wind binary is a binary star system in which the two members are massive stars that emit powerful, radiatively-driven stellar winds. The location...
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enough mass in their winds.[citation needed] Space portal Cosmic ray Cosmic wind Planetary wind Colliding-wind binary Pulsar wind nebula Galactic superwind...
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WR 140 (category Spectroscopic binaries)
its episodic dust formation. It is now regarded as the prototype colliding-wind binary. Shortly after periastron passage every eight years, the infrared...
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shell around the hot, shocked wind. Cosmic wind Stellar wind Solar wind Planetary wind Colliding-wind binary Pulsar wind nebula Galactic superwind Superwind...
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a colliding-wind binary, based on data from XMM-Newton. In contrast, WR 87 has a high plasma temperature consistent with that of a colliding-wind binary...
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Galactic superwind (redirect from Galactic wind)
intergalactic medium. Cosmic wind Stellar wind Solar wind Planetary wind Stellar-wind bubble Colliding-wind binary Pulsar wind nebula Superwind Lehnert,...
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"On the Binary Nature of Massive Blue Hypergiants: High-resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy Suggests That Cyg OB2 12 is a Colliding Wind Binary". The Astrophysical...
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weight. Galactic superwind Stellar wind Solar wind Planetary wind Stellar-wind bubble Colliding-wind binary Pulsar wind nebula Superwind Shelton, Jim (July...
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Apep (star system) (redirect from Apep (binary star))
idea that Apep was a new colliding-wind binary but the radio emission would make it the brightest radio colliding-wind binary discovered outside of the...
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(2025-03-21). "Melnick 39 is a very massive intermediate-period colliding-wind binary". arXiv:2503.17150. Wu, Shi-Wei; Bik, Arjan; Bestenlehner, Joachim...
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Wolf–Rayet star (section Binaries)
Bolingbroke, N.J. (2005). "High-resolution radio observations of the colliding-wind binary WR 140". The Astrophysical Journal. 623 (1): 447–459. arXiv:astro-ph/0501391...
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Solar wind Stellar wind Planetary wind Stellar-wind bubble Colliding-wind binary Pulsar wind nebula Galactic superwind Marshall, Jonathan R; Van Loon,...
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over-contact eclipsing binary MY Ser. It is one of the most luminous stars in the galaxy. HD 168112 is another colliding-wind binary in the cluster; both...
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WR 147 (section Colliding wind)
leading to a separation of about 0.33 AU. WR 140, the prototype colliding-wind binary Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release...
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Spica (category Binary stars)
G. Jr.; Penny, Laura R. (April 1997). "Photospheric Heating in Colliding-Wind Binaries". Astrophysical Journal. 479 (1): 408. Bibcode:1997ApJ...479..408G...
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HD 93129 (category Spectroscopic binaries)
(2016). "A model for the non-thermal emission of the very massive colliding-wind binary HD 93129A". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 591: A139. arXiv:1604.07294...
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Gamma Velorum (category Spectroscopic binaries)
category of Particle-Accelerating Colliding-Wind Binaries (PACWB), binary systems made of massive stars whose winds collide, resulting in particle acceleration...
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"On the Binary Nature of Massive Blue Hypergiants: High-resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy Suggests That Cyg OB2 12 is a Colliding Wind Binary". The Astrophysical...
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Westerlund 1 (section Binary fraction)
infra-red emission) that are typical of colliding-wind binaries or dust-forming Wolf–Rayet stars. Overall binary fractions of 70% for the Wolf–Rayet population...
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WR 104 (category Spectroscopic binaries)
orbital motion on the structure and stability of adiabatic shocks in colliding wind binaries". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 546: A60. arXiv:1202.2060. Bibcode:2012A&A...
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R.; Van Loo, S. (2006). "XMM-Newton observations of the massive colliding wind binary and non-thermal radio emitter CygOB2#8A [O6If + O5.5III(f)]" (PDF)...
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WR 25 (category Spectroscopic binaries)
Solivella, G. (2006). "The first orbital solution for the massive colliding-wind binary HD 93162 (≡WR 25)". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 460 (3): 777–782...
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binary, due to the detection of hard x-ray emission typical of colliding wind binaries, but the companion is thought to make only a small contribution...
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Eta Carinae (category Binary stars)
the X-ray emission presumed to originate in a colliding wind zone. The confirmation of a luminous binary companion greatly modified the understanding of...
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Neutron star (redirect from Binary neutron stars)
LIGO and Virgo made first detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars (GW170817), leading to further discoveries about neutron...
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WR 30a (category Spectroscopic binaries)
"O". WR 30a is a very strong x-ray source. This is expected for a colliding-wind binary, but the source of the x-rays has not been conclusively determined...
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WR 22 (category Eclipsing binaries)
C. A.; Cohen, D. H.; Owocki, S. P. (2012). "An X-Ray Survey of Colliding Wind Binaries". Proceedings of a Scientific Meeting in Honor of Anthony F. J...
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binary (WC9d+O star), with a supposed period of 2.293 days and an amplitude of 0.044 magnitudes, suggesting it could be a short period Colliding-Wind...
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