X-ray Observations of the Enigmatic Wolf-Rayet System Theta Mus: Two's Company But Three's a Crowd

Stephen L. Skinner, Svetozar A. Zhekov, Manuel Guedel +1

Theta Mus is a remarkable spectroscopic binary (SB) consisting of a carbon-type Wolf-Rayet star and OV companion (WC6+O6-7V) in a 19-day orbit. In addition an O-supergiant is visua…