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On the ring nebulae around runaway Wolf–Rayet stars
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ( IF 4.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-10 , DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1700
D M-A Meyer 1 , L M Oskinova 1, 2 , M Pohl 1, 3 , M Petrov 4
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Wolf-Rayet stars are advanced evolutionary stages of massive stars. Despite their large mass-loss rates and high wind velocities, none of them display a bow shock, although a fraction of them are classified as runaway. Our 2.5-D numerical simulations of circumstellar matter around a 60Mo runaway star show that the fast Wolf-Rayet stellar wind is released into a wind-blown cavity filled with various shocks and discontinuities generated throughout the precedent evolutionary phases. The resulting fast-wind slow-wind interaction leads to the formation of spherical shells of swept-up dusty material similar to those observed in near infrared 24 micron with Spitzer, and which appear to be co-moving with the runaway massive stars, regardless of their proper motion and/or the properties of the local ambient medium. We interpret bright infrared rings around runaway Wolf-Rayet stars in the Galactic plane, like WR138a, as indication of their very high initial masses and a complex evolutionary history. Stellar-wind bow shocks become faint as stars run in diluted media, therefore, our results explain the absence of detected bow shocks around Galactic Wolf-Rayet stars such as the high-latitude, very fast-moving objects WR71, WR124 and WR148. Our results show that the absence of a bow shock is consistent with a runaway nature of some Wolf-Rayet stars. This questions the in-situ star formation scenario of high-latitude Wolf-Rayet stars in favor of dynamical ejection from birth sites in the Galactic plane.

中文翻译:

在失控的沃尔夫-拉叶星周围的环形星云上

沃尔夫-拉叶星是大质量恒星的高级演化阶段。尽管它们的质量损失率和风速很大,但它们都没有表现出弓形激波,尽管其中一小部分被归类为失控。我们对一颗 60Mo 失控恒星周围的星周物质的 2.5-D 数值模拟表明,快速的沃尔夫-拉叶星风被释放到一个充满风吹空腔的空腔中,空腔充满了在整个先前演化阶段产生的各种冲击和不连续性。由此产生的快风慢风相互作用导致形成类似于斯皮策在近红外 24 微米观察到的尘埃物质的球壳,并且似乎与失控的大质量恒星共同移动,无论它们的自身运动和/或当地环境介质的特性。我们将银河平面中失控的沃尔夫-拉叶星周围明亮的红外环(如 WR138a)解释为它们非常高的初始质量和复杂的进化历史的迹象。当恒星在稀释的介质中运行时,恒星风弓形激波变得微弱,因此,我们的结果解释了在银河沃尔夫-拉叶星周围没有检测到弓形激波的原因,例如高纬度、移动速度非常快的物体 WR71、WR124 和 WR148。我们的结果表明,没有弓形激波与一些沃尔夫-拉叶星的失控性质是一致的。这质疑了高纬度沃尔夫-拉叶星的原位恒星形成场景,有利于从银河平面的诞生地点进行动力喷射。当恒星在稀释的介质中运行时,恒星风弓形激波变得微弱,因此,我们的结果解释了在银河沃尔夫-拉叶星周围没有检测到弓形激波的原因,例如高纬度、移动速度非常快的物体 WR71、WR124 和 WR148。我们的结果表明,没有弓形激波与一些沃尔夫-拉叶星的失控性质是一致的。这质疑了高纬度沃尔夫-拉叶星的原位恒星形成场景,有利于从银河平面的诞生地点进行动力喷射。当恒星在稀释的介质中运行时,恒星风弓形激波变得微弱,因此,我们的结果解释了在银河沃尔夫-拉叶星周围没有检测到弓形激波的原因,例如高纬度、移动速度非常快的物体 WR71、WR124 和 WR148。我们的结果表明,没有弓形激波与一些沃尔夫-拉叶星的失控性质是一致的。这质疑了高纬度沃尔夫-拉叶星的原位恒星形成场景,有利于从银河平面的诞生地点进行动力喷射。
更新日期:2020-07-10
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