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The Prototype Colliding‐Wind Pinwheel WR 104

  • Authors: Peter G. Tuthill, John D. Monnier, Nicholas Lawrance, William C. Danchi, Stan P. Owocki, and Kenneth G. Gayley

Tuthill et al. 2008 The Astrophysical Journal 675 698.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 5.

Schematic diagram of the key elements in the WR 104 system. The geometry depicted is that of a face‐on view onto a 20° cone half‐angle pinwheel. The axis of the system and the line of shadow cast at 84° to the spiral origin (﹩\theta =0﹩) are indicated as dot‐dashed lines. Key elements are labeled, and some, such as the binary separation, are not to scale (depicted here about a factor of 10 too large).

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