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Are peculiar Wolf-Rayet Stars of type WN8 Thorne-Zytkow Objects? | | C. Foellmi
; A.F.J. Moffat
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11 Jul 2006 | | Abstract: | Most population I Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are the He-rich descendants of the most massive stars (M_i = 25 - 100 M_sun). Evidence has been accumulating over the years that among all pop I WR stars, those of the relatively cool, N-rich subtype "WN8" are among the most peculiar: 1. They tend to be runaways, with large space velocity and/or avoid clusters. 2. Unlike their equally luminous WN6,7 cousins, only a very small number of WN8 stars are known to belong to a close binary with an OB companion. 3. They are the systematically most highly stochastically variable among all (single) WR stars. Taken together, these suggest that many WN8 stars may originally have been in close binaries (like half of all stars), in which the original primary exploded as a supernova, leaving behind a very close binary containing a massive star with a neutron star/black hole companion (like Cyg X-3). When the massive remaining star evolved in turn, it engulfed and eventually swallowed the compact companion, leading to the presently puffed-up, variable WN8 star. Such stars could fall in the realm of the exotic Thorne-Zytkow objects. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0607217 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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