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碰撞风双星Cyg OB2 #8A的可变毫米辐射

Variable millimetre radiation from the colliding-wind binary Cyg OB2 #8A

R. Blomme, D. M. Fenech, R. K. Prinja, J. M. Pittard, J. C. Morford

摘要:

在大质量双星的碰撞风区,会产生非热射电辐射。这种非热的无线电发射(由于同步辐射),迄今已被观察到厘米波长。在毫米波长,恒星风和碰撞风区域发出更多的无热辐射,预计任何非热辐射都很难或不可能被探测到。我们的目标是确定碰撞风区域的材料是否对观测到的碰撞风双星的毫米通量有很大的贡献。我们还试图区分同步辐射和自由-自由辐射。我们用射电天文学毫米波研究所(IRAM)的NOEMA扩展毫米波阵列(NOEMA)干涉仪在3 mm处监测了大质量的天鹅座OB 2 #8A。这些数据是在14次单独的观测运行(2014年和2016年)中收集的,并提供了良好的轨道周期覆盖。观测到的毫米通量范围在1.1和2.3毫焦耳年之间,并显示锁相变化,清楚地表明,很大一部分的排放是由于碰撞风区。一个简单的同步加速器模型给出了正确数量级的通量,但最大值相对于观测值有相移。定性地说,这种相移可以用我们忽略轨道运动对碰撞风区域形状的影响来解释。仅使用自由-自由排放的模型对观测结果的解释仅略差。此外,在我们的观测地图上,我们还探测到O6.5 III恒星Cyg OB 2 #8B,我们确定其3 mm通量为0.21 +- 0.033 mJy。究竟是同步辐射还是自由-自由辐射主导了天鹅座OB 2 #8A的毫米级通量,这个问题仍然悬而未决。更详细的建模,这个系统的基础上解决流体动力学方程,需要给出一个明确的答案。

英文摘要:

In the colliding-wind region of massive binaries, non-thermal radio emission occurs. This non-thermal radio emission (due to synchrotron radiation) has so far been observed at centimetre wavelengths. At millimetre wavelengths, the stellar winds and the colliding-wind region emit more thermal free-free radiation, and it is expected that any non-thermal contribution will be difficult or impossible to detect. We aim to determine if the material in the colliding-wind region contributes substantially to the observed millimetre fluxes of a colliding-wind binary. We also try to distinguish the synchrotron emission from the free-free emission. We monitored the massive binary Cyg OB2 #8A at 3 mm with the NOrthern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA) interferometer of the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique (IRAM). The data were collected in 14 separate observing runs (in 2014 and 2016), and provide good coverage of the orbital period. The observed millimetre fluxes range between 1.1 and 2.3 mJy, and show phase-locked variability, clearly indicating that a large part of the emission is due to the colliding-wind region. A simple synchrotron model gives fluxes with the correct order of magnitude, but with a maximum that is phase-shifted with respect to the observations. Qualitatively this phase shift can be explained by our neglect of orbital motion on the shape of the colliding-wind region. A model using only free-free emission results in only a slightly worse explanation of the observations. Additionally, on the map of our observations we also detect the O6.5 III star Cyg OB2 #8B, for which we determine a 3 mm flux of 0.21 +- 0.033 mJy. The question of whether synchrotron radiation or free-free emission dominates the millimetre fluxes of Cyg OB2 #8A remains open. More detailed modelling of this system, based on solving the hydrodynamical equations, is required to give a definite answer.

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