Abstract

An X-ray Survey of Colliding Wind Binaries

Marc Gagné (West Chester University)

Garrett Fehon (West Chester University), David Cohen (Swarthmore College), Stan Owocki (University of Delaware), Svetozar Zhekov (Space and Solar-Terrestrial Research Institute, Bulgaria)

We examine the X-ray and orbital properties of twenty four O, WR, and LBV binaries observed with Chandra and XMM to probe the connection between mass-loss, binary separation, X-ray luminosity and X-ray shock temperature in colliding wind binary systems.