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Colliding Stellar Winds in Close Binary Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Steven N. Shore  and
Michael J. Corcoran
Steven N. Shore
Affiliation:
GHRS Science Team/CSC, GSFC, Code 681, Greenbelt MD 20771 USA
Michael J. Corcoran
Affiliation:
Laboratory for High Energy Astronomy, GSFC, Code 660, Greenbelt MD 20771 USA

Abstract

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We describe some of the observational phenomena associated with colliding stellar winds, focussing especially on close WR+O binaries. In particular, we report some new ultraviolet observations of CQ Cep and V444 Cyg. We also discuss some of the general theory of such wind collisions.

Keywords

Stellar WindsHydrodynamicsUltraviolet Spectroscopy
Type
Oral and Contributed Papers
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 151: Evolutionary Processes in Interacting Binary Stars , 1992 , pp. 359 - 362
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1992 

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