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most citedAnisotropic winds in Wolf-Rayet binary identify potential gamma-ray burst progenitor

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astro-ph.EP2026

Searching for Habitable Exoplanets with Relative Astrometry (SHERA). I. The Case for Searching for Planets in Binary Star Systems

Jessie L. Christiansen, Eric E. Mamajek, Gautam Vasisht +14

Discovering Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars was identified as a priority science goal of the Astronomy 2020 Decadal Survey. It is confounded by many factors, one of whic…

astro-ph.IM2026

Calibration of an Analog-to-Digital Conversion Nonlinearity in JWST/NIRISS

Shashank Dholakia, Shishir Dholakia, Benjamin J. S. Pope +4

We quantify an unusual flux-dependent systematic which is periodic in raw counts in flight data from the James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph…

astro-ph.SR2026

Astrometric exoplanet detection survives solar-like stellar contamination

Conaire Deagan, Benjamin T. Montet, P. Tuthill +3

Astrometric monitoring of stars provides a promising method for discovery of low-mass planets around nearby Sun-like stars. The astronomical community has proposed several telescop…

astro-ph.EP2026

A Century of Radial Velocity and Astrometric Monitoring of 70 Oph AB: New PFS Data and Constraints on Planetary Companions

Yiting Li, Michael R. Meyer, Skylar D'Angiolillo +29

At a distance of 5.1 pc, the 70 Oph AB binary star system is one of the most favorable targets for future direct imaging and astrometry missions surveying mature, terrestrial plane…

astro-ph.SR2026

Can the dust eclipses in WR 104 provide constraints on the system's inclination?

Noel D. Richardson, Ryan M. T. White, Anthony J. Fabrega +8

When two massive stars orbit each other, their winds create a shock cone. In some cases, an evolved, carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet (WR) star's wind collides with that of an orbiting OB st…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Revealing the accelerating wind in the inner region of the colliding-wind binary WR 112

John D. Monnier, Yinuo Han, Michael F. Corcoran +17

Colliding winds in massive binaries generate X-ray-bright shocks, synchrotron radio emission, and sometimes even dusty "pinwheel" spirals. We report the first X-ray detections of t…

astro-ph.SR2025

Constraining properties of dust formed in Wolf-Rayet binary WR 112 using mid-infrared and millimeter observations

Donglin Wu, Yinuo Han, Peredur M. Williams +9

Binaries that host a carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet (WC) star and an OB-type companion can be copious dust producers. Yet the properties of dust, particularly the grain size distribution,…

astro-ph.SR2025

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…

astro-ph.SR2025

The formation and evolution of dust in the colliding-wind binary Apep revealed by JWST

Yinuo Han, Ryan M. T. White, Joseph R. Callingham +4

Carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are significant contributors of carbonaceous dust to the galactic environment, however the mechanisms and conditions for formation and subsequent…

astro-ph.SR2025

Carbon-rich dust injected into the interstellar medium by Galactic WC binaries survives for hundreds of years

Noel D. Richardson, Micaela Henson, Emma P. Lieb +23

Some carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet stars (WC stars) show an infrared excess from dust emission. Dust forms in the collision of the WC wind with a companion star's wind. As this dust is ca…

astro-ph.IM2025

PIRATES -- a machine-learning framework for polarized, interferometric image reconstruction

Lucinda Lilley, Barnaby Norris, Peter Tuthill +13

Optical interferometric image reconstruction is a challenging, ill-posed optimization problem which usually relies on heavy regularization for convergence. Conventional algorithms…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 12 cited

Dynamic Imprints of Colliding-wind Dust Formation from WR140

Emma P. Lieb, Ryan M. Lau, Jennifer L. Hoffman +24

Carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet binaries are a prominent source of carbonaceous dust that contribute to the dust budget of galaxies. The "textbook" example of an episodic dust producing WR…

astro-ph.SR2024

Wolf-Rayet Colliding Wind Binaries

Ryan M. T. White, Peter Tuthill

Wolf-Rayet stars embody the final stable phase of the most massive stars immediately before their evolution is terminated in a supernova explosion. They are responsible for some of…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 2 cited

The James Webb Interferometer: Space-based interferometric detections of PDS 70 b and c at 4.8 m

Dori Blakely, Doug Johnstone, Gabriele Cugno +22

We observed the planet-hosting system PDS 70 with the James Webb Interferometer, JWST's Aperture Masking Interferometric (AMI) mode within NIRISS. Observing with the F480M filter c…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 17 cited

AU-scale radio imaging of the wind collision region in the brightest and most luminous non-thermal colliding wind binary Apep

B. Marcote, J. R. Callingham, M. De Becker +5

The recently discovered colliding-wind binary (CWB) Apep has been shown to emit luminously from radio to X-rays, with the emission driven by a binary composed of two Wolf-Rayet (WR…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 19 cited

The extreme colliding-wind system Apep: resolved imagery of the central binary and dust plume in the infrared

Y. Han, P. G. Tuthill, R. M. Lau +6

The recent discovery of a spectacular dust plume in the system 2XMM J160050.7-514245 (referred to as "Apep") suggested a physical origin in a colliding-wind binary by way of the "P…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 44 cited

Anisotropic winds in Wolf-Rayet binary identify potential gamma-ray burst progenitor

J. R. Callingham, P. G. Tuthill, B. J. S. Pope +5

The massive evolved Wolf-Rayet stars sometimes occur in colliding-wind binary systems in which dust plumes are formed as a result of the collision of stellar winds. These structure…