Modeling the effects of clumpy winds in the high-energy light curves of γ-ray binaries

[Context] High-mass gamma-ray binaries are powerful nonthermal galactic sources, some of them hosting a pulsar whose relativistic wind interacts with a likely inhomogeneous stellar wind. So far, modeling these sources including stellar wind inhomogeneities has been done using either simple analytica...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Kefala, Elina, Bosch-Ramon, Valentí
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2023
Country:España
Institution:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repository:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/337081
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/337081
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Hydrodynamics
X-rays: binaries
Stars: winds, outflows
Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal
Gamma rays: stars
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Summary:[Context] High-mass gamma-ray binaries are powerful nonthermal galactic sources, some of them hosting a pulsar whose relativistic wind interacts with a likely inhomogeneous stellar wind. So far, modeling these sources including stellar wind inhomogeneities has been done using either simple analytical approaches or heavy numerical simulations, none of which allow for an exploration of the parameter space that is both reasonably realistic and general.