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Magnetic annihilation in colliding-wind binary systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

M. Jardine ,
H.R. Allen  and
A.M.T. Pollock
M. Jardine
Affiliation:
1 Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, England
H.R. Allen
Affiliation:
2 Computing Centre, North Haugh, St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9SX, Scotland
A.M.T. Pollock
Affiliation:
3 Computer & Scientific Co. Ltd, 34 Westwood Road, Sheffield S11 7EY, England

Abstract

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We investigate the possibility that a stagnation-point magnetic reconnection model may account for the particle acceleration necessary for the generation of nonthermal radio emission in the Wolf-Rayet binary systems exemplified by WR140.

Keywords

reconnectionparticle accelerationradio: non-thermalstars: Wolf-Rayet
Type
Session VII - poster summaries
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 163: Wolf-Rayet Stars: Binaries, Colliding Winds, Evolution , 1995 , pp. 523 - 524
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995 

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