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Search for particle acceleration in two massive Wolf-Rayet stars using uGMRT observations
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Saha, Anindya (author)
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Tej, Anandmayee (author)
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- Del Palacio, Santiago, 1990 (author)
- Chalmers tekniska högskola,Chalmers University of Technology
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- De Becker, M. (author)
- Universite de Liège,University of Liège
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- Benaglia, P. (author)
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas
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- Ishwara-Chandra, C. H. (author)
- National Centre for Radio Astrophysics India
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- Prajapati, Prachi (author)
- Physical Research Laboratory
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- 2023
- 2023
- English.
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In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. - 0035-8711 .- 1365-2966. ; 526:1, s. 750-757
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- Large wind kinetic power of Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars make them ideal targets in low radio frequencies to search for non-thermal emission due to relativistic particle acceleration. In this paper, we present observations of two WR stars, WR 114 and WR 142, in Band 4 (550-950 MHz) and Band 5 (1050-1450 MHz) using the upgraded Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope. Neither star is detected in the observed frequency bands, nor extended emission associated with them. The upper limit to the free-free radio emission from the stellar wind enables us to constrain the mass-loss rate of WR 114 to; this is a factor three smaller than previously estimated using spectroscopic modelling. If we further assume that the WR stars are binaries, the non-detection of synchrotron emission from the putative wind collision region implies that the stars are either in very wide binary systems away from periastron, or that the stars are in close binary systems with an orbital separation <70 AU for WR 114 and <20 AU for WR 142. The non-detection of low-frequency radio emission from these two systems thus provides evidence that narrows their nature, though it does not rule them out as bona fide particle-accelerating colliding-wind binaries.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- stars: Wolf-Rayet
- radiation mechanisms: non-thermal
- radio continuum: ISM
- stars: individual: WR 114 and WR 142
- radiation mechanisms: thermal
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