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Planets and X-rays: a radiation diet
J. Sanz-Forcada, I. Ribas, G. Micela +4
According to theory, high energy emission from the coronae of cool stars can severely erode the atmosphere of orbiting planets. To test the long term effects of the erosion we stud…
Estimation of the XUV radiation onto close planets and their evaporation
J. Sanz-Forcada, G. Micela, I. Ribas +5
Context: The current distribution of planet mass vs. incident stellar X-ray flux supports the idea that photoevaporation of the atmosphere may take place in close-in planets. Integ…
New Constraints on the Origin of the Short-Term Cyclical Variability of the Wolf-Rayet Star WR 46
V. Hénault-Brunet, N. St-Louis, S. V. Marchenko +3
The Wolf-Rayet star WR 46 is known to exhibit a very complex variability pattern on relatively short time scales of a few hours. Periodic but intermittent radial velocity shifts of…
MAXI J1659-152: the shortest orbital period black-hole binary
E. Kuulkers, C. Kouveliotou, A. J. van der Horst +19
Following the detection of a bright new X-ray source, MAXI J1659-152, a series of observations was triggered with almost all currently flying high-energy missions. We report here o…
The WR 140 periastron passage 2009: first results from MONS and other optical sources
R. Fahed, A. F. J. Moffat, J. Zorec +29
We present the results from the spectroscopic follow-up of WR140 (WC7 + O4-5) during its last periastron passage in January 2009. This object is known as the archetype of colliding…
The X-ray Lightcurve of WR 140
M. F. Corcoran, A. M. T. Pollock, K. Hamaguchi +1
WR 140 is a canonical massive "colliding wind" binary system in which periodically-varying X-ray emission is produced by the collision between the wind of the WC7 and O4-5 star com…