Radio emission; Particle acceleration; Massive stars; Hard X-rays; Gamma-rays
Abstract :
[en] Therecently discovered massive binary system Apep is the most powerful synchrotron emitter among the known Galactic colliding-wind binaries. This makes this particular system of great interest to investigate stellar winds and the non-thermal processes associated with their shocks. This source was detected at various radio bands, and in addition the wind-collision region was resolved by means of very-long baseline interferometric observations. We use a non-thermal emission model for colliding-wind binaries to derive physical properties of this system. The observed morphology in the resolved maps allows us to estimate the system projection angle on the sky to be ψ ≈ 85°. The observed radio flux densities also allow us to characterise both the intrinsic synchrotron spectrum of the source and its modifications due to free-free absorption in the stellar winds at low frequencies; from this, we derive mass-loss rates of the stars of \dot{M}_WN ≈ 4×10^{-5}M_⊙ yr^{-1} and \dot{M}_WC ≈ 2.9×10^{-5}M_⊙ yr^{-1} . Finally, the broadband spectral energy distribution is calculated for different combinations of the remaining free parameters, namely the intensity of the magnetic field and the injected power in non-thermal particles. We show that the degeneracy of these two parameters can be solved with observations in the high-energy domain, most likely in the hard X-rays but also possibly in γ -rays under favourable conditions.
Research Center/Unit :
STAR - Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research - ULiège
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
del Palacio, S.
Benaglia, P.
De Becker, Michaël ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Origines Cosmologiques et Astrophysiques (OrCa)
Bosch-Ramon, V.
Romero, G. E.
Language :
English
Title :
The non-thermal emission from the colliding-wind binary Apep
Publication date :
January 2022
Journal title :
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
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