%0 Generic %1 citeulike:13176439 %A Russell, Christopher M. P. %A Okazaki, Atsuo T. %A Owocki, Stanley P. %A Corcoran, Michael F. %A Hamaguchi, Kenji %A Sugawara, Yasuharu %D 2014 %K imported %T 3D Hydrodynamic & Radiative Transfer Models of X-ray Emission from Colliding Wind Binaries %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4803 %X Colliding wind binaries (CWBs) are unique laboratories for X-ray astrophysics. The massive stars in these systems possess powerful stellar winds with speeds up to \$\sim\$3000 km s\$^-1\$, and their collision leads to hot plasma (up to \$\sim10^8\$K) that emit thermal X-rays (up to \$\sim\$10 keV). Many X-ray telescopes have observed CWBs, including Suzaku, and our work aims to model these X-ray observations. We use 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to model the wind-wind interaction, and then perform 3D radiative transfer to compute the emergent X-ray flux, which is folded through X-ray telescopes' response functions to compare directly with observations. In these proceedings, we present our models of Suzaku observations of the multi-year-period, highly eccentric systems \$\eta\$ Carinae and WR 140. The models reproduce the observations well away from periastron passage, but only \$\eta\$ Carinae's X-ray spectrum is reproduced at periastron; the WR 140 model produces too much flux during this more complicated phase.

@misc{citeulike:13176439, abstract = {Colliding wind binaries (CWBs) are unique laboratories for X-ray astrophysics. The massive stars in these systems possess powerful stellar winds with speeds up to \$\sim\$3000 km s\$^{-1}\$, and their collision leads to hot plasma (up to \$\sim10^8\$K) that emit thermal X-rays (up to \$\sim\$10 keV). Many X-ray telescopes have observed CWBs, including Suzaku, and our work aims to model these X-ray observations. We use 3D smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to model the wind-wind interaction, and then perform 3D radiative transfer to compute the emergent X-ray flux, which is folded through X-ray telescopes' response functions to compare directly with observations. In these proceedings, we present our models of Suzaku observations of the multi-year-period, highly eccentric systems \$\eta\$ Carinae and WR 140. The models reproduce the observations well away from periastron passage, but only \$\eta\$ Carinae's X-ray spectrum is reproduced at periastron; the WR 140 model produces too much flux during this more complicated phase.}, added-at = {2019-03-25T08:20:55.000+0100}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, author = {Russell, Christopher M. P. and Okazaki, Atsuo T. and Owocki, Stanley P. and Corcoran, Michael F. and Hamaguchi, Kenji and Sugawara, Yasuharu}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ae8842b78ec524465055a23b9a7380a3/ericblackman}, citeulike-article-id = {13176439}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4803}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.4803}, day = 19, eprint = {1405.4803}, interhash = {6af635f1e7558d67d70c98de119fb399}, intrahash = {ae8842b78ec524465055a23b9a7380a3}, keywords = {imported}, month = may, posted-at = {2014-05-20 07:18:10}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2019-03-25T08:20:55.000+0100}, title = {{3D Hydrodynamic \& Radiative Transfer Models of X-ray Emission from Colliding Wind Binaries}}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.4803}, year = 2014 }