The powerful wind-wind collision in massive star binaries creates a region of high temperature plasma and accelerates particles to relativistic energies. I briefly summarize the hydrodynamics of the wind-wind interaction and the observational evidence, including recent γ-ray detections, of non-thermal emission from such systems. I then discuss existing models of the non-thermal emission and their application to date, before concluding with some future prospects.
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Rauw, G. (2004). Non-Thermal Emission from Early-Type Binaries (pp. 105–125). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2256-2_5
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