The Fermi LAT view of the colliding wind binaries

Abstract

Colliding wind binaries (CWBs) have been considered as a possible high energy $\gamma$-ray sources for some time, however no system other than $\eta$ Car has been detected. In the paper a sample of seven CWBs (WR 11, WR 70, WR 137, WR 140, WR 146, WR 147) which, by means of theoretic modelling, were deemed most promising candidates, was analyzed using almost 7 years of the Fermi-LAT data. WR 11 (${\gamma }^2$ Vel) was detected at 6.1$\sigma$ confidence level with a photon flux in 0.1-100 GeV range $(1.8\pm 0.6)\times 10^{-9}\mathrm{ph}\mathrm{c}{\mathrm{m}}^{-2}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$ and an energy flux $(2.7\pm 0.5)\times 10^{-12}\mathrm{erg}\mathrm{c}{\mathrm{m}}^{-2}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$. At the adopted distance $d=340$ pc this corresponds to a luminosity $L=(3.7\pm 0.7)\times 10^{31}\mathrm{erg}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$. This luminosity amounts to $\sim 6\times 10^{-6}$ fraction of the total wind kinetic power and $\sim 1.6\times 10^{-4}$ fraction of the power injected into the wind-wind interaction region of this system. Upper limits were set on the high energy flux from the WR 70 and WR 140 systems.

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