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Wolf-Rayet双星中的各向异性风识别潜在的伽马射线暴祖先

Anisotropic winds in Wolf-Rayet binary identify potential gamma-ray burst progenitor

J. R. Callingham, P. G. Tuthill, B. J. S. Pope, P. M. Williams, P. A. Crowther, M. Edwards, B. Norris, L. Kedziora-Chudczer

摘要:

大质量演化的沃尔夫-拉叶星有时会出现在碰撞风双星系统中,其中的尘埃羽流是恒星风碰撞的结果。已知这些结构编码双星轨道和风的参数。在这里,我们报告了一个以前未被发现的沃尔夫-拉叶系统,2XMM J160050.7-514245,与光谱确定的风速为$\approx$ 3400公里秒$^{-1}$的意见。在热红外线中,该系统装饰着一个突出的$\approx$ 12 $''$螺旋尘埃羽流,自行研究显示,它的膨胀速度只有$\approx$ 570 km/s $^{-1}$。由于尘埃和气体似乎是同时代的,这些观测结果与现有的这种碰撞风系统的动力学模型不一致。我们建议,如果系统能够发射极端各向异性的风,这个矛盾可以得到解决。近临界的恒星旋转是已知的驱动这样的风,这表明沃尔夫-拉叶系统作为一个潜在的银河系长时间伽马射线暴的祖先系统。

英文摘要:

The massive evolved Wolf-Rayet stars sometimes occur in colliding-wind binary systems in which dust plumes are formed as a result of the collision of stellar winds. These structures are known to encode the parameters of the binary orbit and winds. Here, we report observations of a previously undiscovered Wolf-Rayet system, 2XMM J160050.7-514245, with a spectroscopically determined wind speed of $\approx$3400 km s$^{-1}$. In the thermal infrared, the system is adorned with a prominent $\approx$12$''$ spiral dust plume, revealed by proper motion studies to be expanding at only $\approx$570 km s$^{-1}$. As the dust and gas appear coeval, these observations are inconsistent with existing models of the dynamics of such colliding wind systems. We propose that this contradiction can be resolved if the system is capable of launching extremely anisotropic winds. Near-critical stellar rotation is known to drive such winds, suggesting this Wolf-Rayet system as a potential Galactic progenitor system for long-duration gamma-ray bursts.

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