Andrews, H;
Fenech, D;
Prinja, RK;
Clark, JS;
Hindson, L;
(2018)
Asymmetric ejecta of cool supergiants and hypergiants in the massive cluster Westerlund 1.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
, 477
(1)
L55-L59.
10.1093/mnrasl/sly046.
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Abstract
We report new 5.5 GHz radio observations of the massive star cluster Westerlund 1, taken by the Australia Telescope Compact Array, detecting nine of the ten yellow hypergiants (YHGs) and red supergiants (RSGs) within the cluster. Eight of nine sources are spatially resolved. The nebulae associated with the YHGs Wd1-4a, -12a, and -265 demonstrate a cometary morphology – the first time this phenomenon has been observed for such stars. This structure is also echoed in the ejecta of the RSGs Wd1-20 and -26; in each case the cometary tails are directed away from the cluster core. The nebular emission around the RSG Wd1-237 is less collimated than these systems but once again appears more prominent in the hemisphere facing the cluster. Considered as a whole, the nebular morphologies provide compelling evidence for sculpting via a physical agent associated with Westerlund 1, such as a cluster wind.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Asymmetric ejecta of cool supergiants and hypergiants in the massive cluster Westerlund 1 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/mnrasl/sly046 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | stars: evolution, stars: massive, supergiants, stars: winds, outflows |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10055376 |
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