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The orbit and stellar masses of the archetype colliding-wind binary WR 140

Authors :
Thomas Eversberg
Brendan McBride
Jean-Baptiste Le Bouquin
R. Leadbeater
Benjamin R. Setterholm
Cyprien Lanthermann
Andrew Couperus
Tyler Gardner
Berthold Stober
Courtney Maki
T. ten Brummelaar
Hugues Sana
John D. Monnier
Jacob Ennis
Gail Schaefer
Michael F. Corcoran
J. Ribeiro
Dogus Ozuyar
Narsireddy Anugu
Aaron Labdon
Mackenna Wood
Tim Lester
Ian R. Stevens
Joan Guarro Fló
John J. Eldridge
Claire L. Davies
Peredur M. Williams
Oliver Garde
Gerd Weigelt
Farrah D Zainol
Noel D. Richardson
Joshua D. Thomas
Anthony F. J. Moffat
Stefan Kraus
Uwe Zurmühl
Fran Campos
Source :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

We present updated orbital elements for the Wolf-Rayet (WR) binary WR\,140 (HD\,193793; WC7pd + O5.5fc). The new orbital elements were derived using previously published measurements along with {\color{black}160} new radial velocity measurements across the 2016 periastron passage of WR 140. Additionally, four new measurements of the orbital astrometry were collected with the CHARA Array. With these measurements, we derive stellar masses of $M_{\rm WR} = 10.31\pm0.45 M_\odot$ and $M_{\rm O} = 29.27\pm1.14 M_{\odot}$. We also include a discussion of the evolutionary history of this system from the Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis (BPASS) model grid to show that this WR star likely formed primarily through mass loss in the stellar winds, with only a moderate amount of mass lost or transferred through binary interactions.<br />10 pages, 5 figures

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....052205a1bfa60da3dcb471196561e111