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1 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Multi-wavelength Observations of Colliding Stellar Winds Mike Corcoran Universities Space Research Association and NASA/GSFC Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics Collaborators: Julian Pittard (Leeds) Ian Stevens (U. Birmingham) David Henley (U. Birmingham) Andy Pollock (ESA)

2 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Outline of Talk Statement of the Problem Massive Stars as Colliding Wind Labs –Wind Characteristics –Types of Interactions A (non) canonical Example: Eta Car New high resolution tools Colliding winds in Single Stars Conclusions

3 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Statement of a General Problem: An “engine” loses mass into its surroundings the surroundings are “messy” and the outflow collides with nearby “stuff” by observing the results of this collision, we can learn about the engine, its environment, and the relation between the engine and the environment Concentrate on: Massive outflows from massive (non-exploding) stars neglect interesting phenomena like magneto-hydrodynamic interactions in winds of lower mass stars and AGB

4 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Massive Stars (10<M/M<100): Colliding Wind Labs Wind parameters (mass loss rates, wind velocities) can be characterized (UV, radio) Flux Wavelength P-Cygni profiles V   (  c Stellar parameters (masses, temperatures, radii, rotational velocity) can often be estimated They are nearby Generate X-ray & Radio emission

5 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Stellar Wind Characteristics For Massive Stars Near the Main Sequence Lots of energy to accelerate particles and heat gas Evolutionary scenario: O  WR (  LBV)  WR  SN Winds evolve as the star evolves:

6 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Types of Interactions: Stellar outflows can collide with –pre-existing clouds –earlier ejecta –winds from a companion –a companion –itself All these collisions can produce observable emission from shocked gas Typical velocities 100-1000 km/s  T ~ 10 6 K

7 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections A (non)canonical example: Eta Carinae Eta Car: perhaps the Galaxy’s most massive & luminous star (5  10 6 L ; 100 M ; cf. the Pistol Star, LBV1806-20) An eruptive star (erupted in 1843; 1890; 1930?; now?) shows beautiful ejecta: outer debris field and the “Homunculus” nebula Great Eruption Homunculus forms “mini”-Eruption

8 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Humphrey and Davidson 1994 Eta Car and the Homunculus The Star HST/ACS image of Eta Car (Courtesy the HST TREASURY PROJECT) the Paddle The Skirt the “jet” Lobes Artist rendering of Eta Carina based on Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO) observations

9 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Eta Car: From the Outside In HST/WFPC2 [N II] 6583 (courtesy N. Smith) E Condensations S Ridge W condensations Homunculus “Jet” “Strings” The Outer Ejecta Outer debris ejected a few hundred years before the Great Eruption shocks from ejecta/CSM collision

10 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections The Stellar Emission 1992: contemporaneous radio & X-ray observations saw a rapid brightening of the star 92 Jun93 Jan 0.5-1.0 keV E>1.6 keV 1 arcmin. X-ray continuum (Corcoran et al. 1995) 3 cm. continuum (Duncan et al. 1995) Inner: optically thick thermal Outer: optically thin thermal; NT?

11 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Continued Variability Monitoring since 1992 in radio and X-ray regimes showed continuous variability Damineli (1996) showed evidence of a 5.5 year period from ground-based spectra apparent simultaneous variations in ground-based optical, IR, radio and X-rays suggest periodically varying emission: colliding winds? one star or two?

12 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Radio and X-ray Monitoring of Eta Car

13 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Eta Car’s Latest Eclipse (June 29, 2003): Caught in the Act Around the time of the X- ray eclipse, snapshot monitoring of Eta Car’s X- ray emission by Chandra and the XMM-Newton X- ray Observatories Nov 20 2000 Oct 16 2002 May 3 2003 Jun 16 2003 Jul 20 2003 Sep 26 2003

14 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Absorption variations Variation of X-ray spectrum from XMM-Newton observations Variation of observed X-ray flux and column density during 2003 X-ray minimum

15 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections X-ray “flares” Frequent monitoring of the X-ray flux of Eta Car with RXTE showed unexpected quasi-periodic spikes occurring ~every 3 months get stronger and more frequent on approach to X-ray minimum Red points show the time between X-ray peaks.

16 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections A Simple CWB Model X-rays are generated in the shock where the massive, slow wind from Eta Car smashes into and overcomes the thin, fast wind from the companion Intrinsic X-ray luminosity varies the square of the density x volume Observed flux is proportional to intrinsic flux modified by absorption cooler hotter slow dense windfast thin wind In eccentric orbit, intrinsic L x a maximum at periastron force balance determines which wind dominates

17 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Comparisons to the Simple Model General trends are reproduced; details (secular increases in L x, short-period variability) not requires extra absorption to match width of minimum Derived orbit of companion around Eta Car, based on the model lightcurve

18 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections X-ray Grating Spectroscopy: Measuring the Flow Geometry Nearby CWB systems are bright enough for X-ray grating spectroscopy line diagnostics (width, centroids, ratios) measure characteristics of the material flow in the shock, the location of the shock between the stars, the orientation of the shock cone

19 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Comparison: Apastron vs. Quadrature apastron quadrature Decrease in f/i ratio broader, double-peaked lines Doppler shifts?

20 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Spatial Morphology (1): Resolving the shock structure WR 146, WR 147: composite radio spectra, have been resolved in the radio, NT emission from a bow shock NT bow shock Thermal WR147 wind WR 147: Williams et al (1997)Pittard et al. (2002)

21 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Resolving Confusion in The Trifid Nebula Rho et al. 2001 HD 164492A (O7.5III) ionizes the nebula ROSAT & ASCA found a bright hard source coincident with the star …but Chandra resolved the O star as a soft source; hard source is an optically faint object to the south Rho et al. 2004

22 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Self-Colliding Winds Radiatively driven winds intrinsically unstable to doppler perturbations (Lucy & Solomon 1970; Feldmeier 1998). Shocks can form and produce observable emission –X-rays: soft, non-variable –NT radio? Dipolar magnetic field (few hundred G at surface) embedded in a wind can produce magnetically confined wind shock (Babel & Montmerle 1997) –rotationally modulated –hard emission –explains  1 Ori C?

23 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Conclusions Colliding wind binary stars provide good laboratories for testing models of shock-generated radio & X-ray emission Studies of CW emission provide unique information about the densities, temperature ranges and structure of the interaction region Detailed timing, spectral and imaging studies suggest shocks and winds are not smooth and homogeneous shape, stability and aberration of the shock cone important X-ray line profile variability can reveal details about the geometry and dynamics of the outflow Presence of hard X-ray emission and/or NT radio emission from unconfused sources may be a good indicator of a companion (and hence a good probe of the binary fraction for long-period systems)

24 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections

25 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Spatial Morphology (2): Source Identification Most single stars are low-energy (soft) X-ray sources (little emission above 2 keV) Use detection of 2 keV emission to ID (separated) binaries, improve knowledge of binary fraction cf. Dougherty & Williams (2000): identify binaries from NT emission? caveat: source confusion

26 Santa Fe, New Mexico, 3-6 Feb 2004X-Ray and Radio Connections Characteristics of Stellar Colliding Wind X-ray and Radio emission X-rayRadio SEDcollisionally ionized plasmasynchrotron emission (composite spectrum?) e - Accelerationshock heatingFermi acceleration Variabilityemission measure, luminosity, and absorbing column, not kT luminosity & absorption char 1GGHz (5keV)5 GHz (0.02 neV) WR star  ( char )=1 radius few Rstarfew 100 Rstar

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