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Radiation-driven acceleration in the expanding WR140 dust shell

The Wolf–Rayet (WR) binary system WR140 is a close (0.9–16.7 mas; ref. (1)) binary star consisting of an O5 primary and WC7 companion(2) and is known as the archetype of episodic dust-producing WRs. Dust in WR binaries is known to form in a confined stream originating from the collision of the two s...

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Autores principales: Han, Yinuo, Tuthill, Peter G., Lau, Ryan M., Soulain, Anthony
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9556302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36224416
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05155-5