Category:Magnetic wind confinement

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Magnetic massive stars exhibit fields up to the kilogauss range, sufficiently strong to channel the stars' hypersonic radiation-driven winds into violent collisions. The resulting shock-heated gas, as it cools, generates the characteristically hard X-ray emission seen in Chandra and XMM-Newton observations. The subsequent confinement of the post-shock gas in circumstellar magnetospheric clouds naturally explains much of the periodic optical, UV and IR variability associated with many of these stars.

Articles in category "Magnetic wind confinement"

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• Centrifugal breakout

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• Magnetically Confined Wind Shock model

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• Rigid Field Hydrodynamics model
• Rigidly Rotating Magnetosphere model