Hydrodynamics and interferometry speaking to each other: the case of Gamma Velorum
Florentin Millour  1, *@  , Astrid Lamberts  2@  , Adriane Liermann  3@  
1 : Laboratoire Lagrange, UMR7293, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
CNRS : UMR7293
2 : University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (USA)
3 : Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne
* : Corresponding author

We present a work on the closest Wolf-Rayet star Gamma Velorum where we compared a hydrodynamic simulation of the wind-wind collision region with interfermetric data in the K-band continuum. This comparison permitted us to confirm the presence of a contribution of the wind collision zone to the K-band continuum via free-free emission. In that work, we also refined the orbital solution of the system, confirming the previous results and setting the system distance at 2% level. We then extrapolate from the hydrodynamic simulation what can be done in the future to study the observed emission-lines variability, which very likely comes from the wind-collision zone.


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