TY  - JOUR
A1  - Russell, C. M. P.
A1  - Corcoran, M. F.
A1  - Cuadra, J.
A1  - Owocki, S. P.
A1  - Wang, Q. D.
A1  - Hamaguchi, K.
A1  - Sugawara, Y.
A1  - Pollock, A. M. T.
A1  - Kallman, T. R.
T1  - Hydrodynamic and radiative transfer modeling of X-ray emission from colliding WR winds
BT  - WR 140 & the Galactic center
JF  - Wolf-Rayet Stars : Proceedings of an International Workshop held in Potsdam, Germany, 1.–5. June 2015
N2  - Colliding Wolf-Rayet (WR) winds produce thermal X-ray emission widely observed by X-ray telescopes. In wide WR+O binaries, such as WR 140, the X-ray flux is tied to the orbital phase, and is a direct probe of the winds’ properties. In the Galactic center, ~30 WRs orbit the super massive black hole (SMBH) within ~10”, leading to a smorgasbord of wind-wind collisions. To model the X-ray emission of WR 140 and the Galactic center, we perform 3D hydrodynamic simulations to trace the complex gaseous flows, and then carry out 3D radiative transfer calculations to compute the variable X-ray spectra. The model WR 140 RXTE light curve matches the data well for all phases except the X-ray minimum associated with periastron, while the model spectra agree with the RXTE hardness ratio and the shape of the Suzaku observations throughout the orbit. The Galactic center model of the Chandra flux and spectral shape match well in the region r ≤ 3”, but the model flux falls off too rapidly beyond this radius.
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-88255
SP  - 309
EP  - 312
ER  -