Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège -  Volume 93 - Année 2024  No 2 - Proceeedings of the 3rd BINA Workshop on the Scientific Potential of the Indo-Belgian Cooperation 

Study of Wolf-Rayet Stars Using uGMRT

Anindya Saha
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram 695 547, Kerala, India. Corresponding author: anindya.s1130@gmail.com
Anandmayee Tej
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram 695 547, Kerala, India
Santiago del Palacio
Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Michaël De Becker
Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, University of Liège, Belgium
Paula Benaglia
Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía, CONICET-CICPBA-UNLP, Argentina
C.H. Ishwara-Chandra
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune 411 007, Maharashtra, India
Prachi Prajapati
Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380 009, Gujarat, India

Abstract

In recent years, systems involving massive stars with large wind kinetic power have been considered as promising sites for investigating relativistic particle acceleration in low radio frequencies. With this aim, we observed two Wolf-Rayet systems, WR 114 and WR 142, using upgraded Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope observations in Band 4 (550–950 MHz) and Band 5 (1050–1450 MHz). None of the targets was detected at these frequencies. Based on the non-detection, we report 3𝜎 upper limits to the radio flux densities at 735 and 1260 MHz (123 and 66 𝜇Jy for WR 114, and 111 and 96 𝜇Jy for WR 142, respectively). Plausible scenarios to interpret this non-detection are presented.

Keywords : stars: Wolf-Rayet, stars: WR 114, stars: WR 142, radio continuum: ISM, radiation mechanisms: thermal, radiation mechanisms: non-thermal

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Anindya Saha, Anandmayee Tej, Santiago del Palacio, Michaël De Becker, Paula Benaglia, C.H. Ishwara-Chandra & Prachi Prajapati, «Study of Wolf-Rayet Stars Using uGMRT», Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège [En ligne], Volume 93 - Année 2024, No 2 - Proceeedings of the 3rd BINA Workshop on the Scientific Potential of the Indo-Belgian Cooperation, 491-503 URL : http://popups.ulg.be/0037-9565/index.php?id=11764.