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Properties of Wolf-Rayet binaries: the key to understanding Wolf-Rayet stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Anthony F.J. Moffat
Anthony F.J. Moffat*
Affiliation:
Département de physique and Observatoire du mont Mégantic, Université de Montreal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre Ville, Montreal, QC, ESC 3J7, Canada

Abstract

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It is argued that, with few exceptions, WR stars in binaries are essentially indistinguishable from single WR stars of the same subtype. In particular, mass transfer from one star to the other can be neglected, being completely dominated by the winds and their interaction. Empirical masses and mass-loss rates derived for WR stars in binaries are then examined as typifying WR stars in general; they are used to derive a plausible scenario for the evolution of WR stars.

Keywords

stars: hotWolf-Rayetbinaries
Type
Session IV - Properties of Wolf-Rayet binaries
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 163: Wolf-Rayet Stars: Binaries, Colliding Winds, Evolution , 1995 , pp. 213 - 222
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995 

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