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arxiv: 1906.11595 · v1 · pith:UTWQV4TNnew · submitted 2019-06-27 · 🌌 astro-ph.SR

Variable dust emission by WC type Wolf-Rayet stars observed in the NEOWISE-R survey

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NEOWISE-R infrared photometry identifies ten new dust-making WC Wolf-Rayet stars and eleven with variable dust emission.

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The paper examines 3.4 and 4.6 micron photometry for 140 WC-type Wolf-Rayet stars to detect circumstellar dust and its changes over time. Spectral energy distributions built from the survey data plus archival optical measurements separate dust signals from the underlying stellar wind emission. This approach newly flags ten non-variable dust makers, three of them earlier subtypes than previously known, and eleven variables including six new episodic cases. The work also tracks known dust makers to confirm or adjust their formation periods. A sympathetic reader would care because dust production around these hot, massive stars is uncommon and tied to mass-loss processes that shape stellar evolution and the interstellar medium.

Core claim

From their SEDs, ten apparently non-variable stars were newly identified as dust makers, including three, WR 102-22, WR 110-10 and WR 124-10, having subtype earlier than WC8-9, the first such stars to show this phenomenon. The 11 stars found to show variable dust emission include six new episodic dust-makers. Of previously known dust makers, NEOWISE-R photometry captured the rise of WR 19 in 2018 confirming its 10.1-year period, the start of a new episode for WR 125 suggesting a period near 28.3 years, and nearly a full cycle for HD 36402 revising its period to 5.1 years.

What carries the argument

Infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) constructed from NEOWISE-R 3.4 and 4.6 micron photometry combined with archival optical data to isolate circumstellar dust emission above stellar wind levels.

If this is right

  • Early-subtype WC stars can form dust despite their higher temperatures.
  • Episodic dust formation occurs in a larger fraction of WC stars than previously catalogued.
  • Long-term infrared monitoring can determine or revise dust-formation periods for known makers.
  • Dust production is observed in both Galactic and LMC WC populations.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Binary interactions may trigger dust formation in more WC stars than single-star models predict.
  • Updated dust-maker statistics could revise estimates of the contribution of Wolf-Rayet stars to galactic dust budgets.
  • Similar infrared surveys of other massive-star classes might reveal additional hidden dust episodes.

Load-bearing premise

The observed infrared excesses and their variations are produced by circumstellar dust rather than free-free wind emission, background sources, or other contaminants.

What would settle it

Higher-resolution mid-infrared imaging or spectroscopy that shows the excesses match pure wind models without dust spectral features would falsify the dust-maker identifications.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 1906.11595 by Peredur M Williams.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: SEDs of two of the newly identified persistent dust makers. Fluxes from i, Z and Y (WR 60-2) r and i (both VPHAS+ and DENIS, the latter brighter but more uncertain) are marked ⋆; those from J, H and Ks marked ⊙, those from WISE data marked ⊕ and those from GLIMPSE data marked ◦. Broken lines represent the wind continua fitted to the short wavelength pho￾tometry and solid lines the wind+dust models fitted t… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Light curves in W1, ⊕ marking the 2010-17 observa￾tions and the saturation-adjusted 2018 data (see text, the error bars include the uncertainties in the offsets) compared with those in L ′ (⋆) and L (^) from the earlier studies referred to. inal classification WC5+OB by Smith (1968a) in her dis￾covery paper. Fading from a third dust-formation episode was observed by Williams, Rauw & van der Hucht (2009b), … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Mid-IR light curves of WR 46-7 using WISE W1 (⊕) and W2 (⋆) and GLIMPSE [3.6] (⊙) and [4.5] (◦) phased against a period of 1.49 y with zero phase set to the date of the second All-Sky observation in 2010.57. Error bars are ±1σ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Synoptic photometry of WR 47c in W1 (⊕), W2 (⊙), GLIMPSE [3.6] (◦) and [4.5] (×). Error bars are ±1σ. suggesting that dust formation continues the whole time, albeit at a variable rate. 4.3 WR 47c = SMSNPL 7 WR 47c was identified as a WR star in the narrow-band optical (4686-A) survey of ˚ Shara et al. (1999), who classified it as WC5 and gave magnitudes b = 17.49, v = 16.09 (on the narrow-band system (Smi… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Light curves in W1 and Ks of WR 60-3. All-Sky and NEOWISE-R observations, fits the steady fad￾ing well ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Phased light curves in W1 and W2 (⊕ All-Sky and 3- Band Cryo, (⊙ NEOWISE-R) and GLIMPSE [3.6] and [4.5] (△) of WR 60-4. The star is heavily reddened, with AV ≃ 26 derived using Y and J from the VVV Survey. The stellar wind so reddened has W1−W2 ≃ 0.85. This is very close to the average W1−W2 = 0.83 observed between phases 0.2 and 0.8, indicating no dust emission during this time and classifying WR 60-4 as … view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: SEDs of WR 75d based on W1, W2 and W3 observed in 2010.67 in the 3-Band Cryo Survey (marked ⊕) and J H Ks from 2MASS (⊙), with a stellar wind fitted to r, i, Z, Y (⋆) and J to get the reddening. Also plotted (◦), but not used in the model fit, are fluxes observed in 2004.68 in the GLIMPSE survey, when the dust emission was evidently less [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Synoptic WISE All-Sky and 3-Band Cryo (⊕) and NEOWISE-R (⊙) W1 and W2 observed from WR 75aa [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Synoptic photometry of WR 75-11 using W1 (⊕), W2 (⊙), GLIMPSE [3.6] (◦) and [4.5] (×). Error bars are ±1σ. The dotted lines, from the 2016 data, indicate the dust-free continuum level. spectrum as ‘WC9d?’. They noted that the emission lines in their H- and K-band spectra observed on 2010 May 26 were relatively weak, possibly as a result of dilution from thermal dust emission, but hesitated to classify the… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: W1 photometry of WR 77t from the All-Sky and 3 Band Cryo (⊕), NEOWISE-R (⊙) and GLIMPSE (△) surveys. The cryogenic data have been offset to match the NEOWISE-R data. Error bars are ±1σ. were searched for a period, yielding 1.26 y. The NEOWISE W1 photometry phased to this period, together with the cryogenic data offset to match as derived from Mainzer et al. (2014, figure 6) are shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:… view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Synoptic light curves of WR 122-14 in W1 (⊕), [3.6] (◦), W2 (⊙) and [4.5] (×). Error bars are ± 1 σ). The dotted lines suggest the continuum level in the high reddening case (see text). 4.11 WR 122-14 = KSF14 1553-15DF This was identified as a WR star by Kanarek et al. (2015), who classified it WC8. It brightened in W1 and W2 between the All-Sky and Post-Cryo survey observations ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figure… view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: SED of WR 125-1 based on the 2010 AllWISE W1, W2 and W3 (⊕) with a stellar wind fitted to r, i and J. Also plotted, but not used in the model fit, are fluxes (◦) from the GLIMPSE photometry in 2004, showing less dust emission, and those from the 2018 NEOWISE-R observations (), which fit the wind SED and indicate that the dust emission had faded by then. equivalent widths (EWs) of the 0.971-µm C iii and 0.… view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Phased mid-IR light curves of HD 36402 using WISE All-Sky and Post-Cryo (⋆) and NEOWISE-R (⊕) data, together with IRAC (◦), and AKARI N3 (•); see Williams et al. (2013b) for sources of the latter. Error bars are ± 1 σ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_16.png] view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: SED of HD 38030 based on the AllWISE W1 and W2 (⊕), SAGE [3.6] to [8.0] (◦), 2MASS J H Ks (⊙), with a stellar wind fitted to b, v (Smith 1968b), i (Epchtein et al. 1999) and Y (Cioni et al. 2011) representing HD 38030 in quiescence. Plotted above this SED are fluxes from the NEOWISE-R W1 and W2 observed in 2018.31 and 2018.76 () showing the change in level and slope of this portion of the mid-IR SED. (201… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Photometry at 3.4 and 4.6 micron of 128 Population~I WC type Wolf-Rayet stars in the Galaxy and 12 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) observed in the WISE NEOWISE-R survey was searched for evidence of circumstellar dust emission and its variation. Infrared spectral energy distributions (SEDs) were assembled, making use of archival r, i, Z and Y photometry to determine reddening and stellar wind levels for the WC stars found in recent IR surveys and lacking optical photometry. From their SEDs, ten apparently non-variable stars were newly identified as dust makers, including three, WR 102-22, WR 110-10 and WR 124-10, having subtype earlier than WC8-9, the first such stars to show this phenomenon. The 11 stars found to show variable dust emission include six new episodic dust-makers, WR 47c, WR 75-11, WR 91-1, WR 122-14 and WR 125-1 in the Galaxy and HD 38030 in the LMC. Of previously known dust makers, NEOWISE-R photometry of WR 19 captured its rise to maximum in 2018, confirming the 10.1-y period, that of WR 125 the beginning of a new episode of dust formation suggesting a period near 28.3~y., while that of HD 36402 covered almost a whole period and forced revision of it to 5.1~y.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper analyzes NEOWISE-R 3.4 and 4.6 μm photometry for 128 Galactic and 12 LMC WC Wolf-Rayet stars, assembling SEDs from archival r, i, Z, Y photometry to determine reddening and wind levels. It identifies ten new apparently non-variable dust makers (including three with subtypes earlier than WC8-9: WR 102-22, WR 110-10, WR 124-10), eleven variables (six new episodic: WR 47c, WR 75-11, WR 91-1, WR 122-14, WR 125-1, HD 38030), and updates periods for known variables (WR 19 at 10.1 y, WR 125 near 28.3 y, HD 36402 at 5.1 y).

Significance. If the SED-based dust identifications hold, the work expands the known population of dust-producing WC stars and provides the first examples of dust formation in subtypes earlier than WC8-9, with direct implications for wind physics and episodic dust production. The use of public all-sky survey data and the period revisions for three known systems constitute reproducible observational constraints that can be tested with future monitoring.

major comments (2)
  1. [SED analysis and new dust-maker identifications] Section describing SED construction and dust identification (near the paragraph on assembling SEDs from archival photometry): the assignment of W1/W2 excess to circumstellar dust for the three early-subtype stars (WR 102-22, WR 110-10, WR 124-10) rests on extrapolation of the stellar-wind continuum level; an uncertainty of even 0.1–0.2 mag in the normalized wind contribution would remove the claimed excess, yet no quantitative error budget, comparison to non-dust WC control stars, or independent mass-loss diagnostics (e.g., radio fluxes) is supplied to bound this systematic.
  2. [Variable dust emission results] Section on variable dust emission (paragraph listing the 11 variables): the classification of six stars as new episodic dust-makers relies on the same SED separation; without an explicit variability threshold (e.g., amplitude relative to photometric uncertainty or wind-flux scatter) or exclusion criteria for background contamination, the distinction between episodic dust and other sources of mid-IR variation remains difficult to verify from the reported photometry alone.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §4] The abstract and results section should explicitly state the number of stars with sufficient epochs for variability detection versus those classified as non-variable due to sparse sampling.
  2. [Results tables] Table or figure presenting the 10 new non-variable dust makers should include the measured W1–W2 color excess and its uncertainty for each object.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading of the manuscript and for highlighting areas where additional detail would improve clarity. We respond to each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: Section describing SED construction and dust identification (near the paragraph on assembling SEDs from archival photometry): the assignment of W1/W2 excess to circumstellar dust for the three early-subtype stars (WR 102-22, WR 110-10, WR 124-10) rests on extrapolation of the stellar-wind continuum level; an uncertainty of even 0.1–0.2 mag in the normalized wind contribution would remove the claimed excess, yet no quantitative error budget, comparison to non-dust WC control stars, or independent mass-loss diagnostics (e.g., radio fluxes) is supplied to bound this systematic.

    Authors: We agree that an explicit quantitative error budget for the wind-continuum normalization would strengthen the dust identifications for the three early-subtype stars. The SEDs were constructed by fitting optical r, i, Z, Y photometry to constrain reddening and the free-free wind level before extrapolating to W1/W2; the reported excesses for WR 102-22, WR 110-10 and WR 124-10 are 0.35–0.55 mag, which exceeds the 0.1–0.2 mag uncertainty range noted by the referee. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated paragraph that (i) propagates the observed scatter in the optical-to-mid-IR normalization across the non-dust WC control stars in our sample and (ii) tabulates the W1–W2 excess relative to that scatter for the three objects. Radio fluxes are unavailable for these specific stars in the literature, so we will note this limitation while emphasizing that the method is applied uniformly to the full 140-star sample. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Section on variable dust emission (paragraph listing the 11 variables): the classification of six stars as new episodic dust-makers relies on the same SED separation; without an explicit variability threshold (e.g., amplitude relative to photometric uncertainty or wind-flux scatter) or exclusion criteria for background contamination, the distinction between episodic dust and other sources of mid-IR variation remains difficult to verify from the reported photometry alone.

    Authors: The six new episodic dust-makers were identified from NEOWISE-R light curves that show coherent, multi-epoch brightening correlated with an SED excess above the wind continuum. We acknowledge that the original text does not state an explicit variability threshold or background-exclusion protocol. In revision we will insert a methods paragraph defining the adopted criterion (peak-to-peak amplitude >3× the per-epoch photometric uncertainty and >2× the rms scatter measured for non-dust WC stars) and describing the visual inspection of WISE images plus catalog quality flags used to reject obvious background contamination. These additions will allow readers to reproduce the classification directly from the photometry. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity in observational photometry and SED identification

full rationale

The paper reports direct NEOWISE-R photometry at 3.4/4.6 μm for WC stars, assembles SEDs using archival optical/near-IR data to normalize wind levels and reddening, and identifies dust excesses by inspection. No equations, model fits, predictions, or self-citations are described that reduce any claim to its inputs by construction. The central results (new dust makers including early subtypes, variable episodes) are empirical reports of measured excesses and timing, self-contained against external benchmarks with no load-bearing self-referential steps.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The analysis rests on standard domain assumptions about the origin of mid-infrared excess rather than new postulates or heavy fitting beyond period extraction from timing data.

free parameters (1)
  • dust formation periods = various (e.g. 5.1 y for HD 36402)
    Periods (e.g. 10.1 y, 28.3 y, 5.1 y) extracted from the timing of infrared brightness changes in the survey photometry.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Mid-infrared excess at 3.4 and 4.6 microns traces circumstellar dust emission in WC star winds
    Invoked when assembling SEDs to identify dust makers and separate wind levels from dust.

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