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Paul Goodall |
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"Hydrodynamic Simulations
of the SS433-W50 Complex" |
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The compelling evidence for a connection between SS 433 and W50 has provoked much imagination for decades. There are still many unanswered questions: What was the nature of the progenitor of the compact object in SS 433? What causes the evident re-collimation in SS 433’s jets? How recent is SS 433’s current precession state? What mass and energy contributions from a possible supernova explosion are required to produce W50? We have developed detailed hydrodynamic models to confront these questions, which are implemented using FLASH with AMR. I will talk about a few of these hydrodynamic models with some interesting results featuring the supernova dynamics alone, and the SNR combined with a simple jet model. |