The Serpent Eating Its Own Tail: Dust Destruction in the Apep Colliding-Wind Nebula

Ryan M. T. White, Benjamin J. S. Pope, Peter G. Tuthill +5

Much of the carbonaceous dust observed in the early universe may originate from colliding wind binaries (CWBs) hosting hot, luminous Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars. Downstream of the shock…