The X-ray flaring emission from High Mass X-ray Binaries: the effects of wind inhomogeneities

Abstract

We have developed a clumpy stellar wind model for OB supergiants in order to compare predictions of this model with the X-ray behaviour of both classes of persistent and transient High Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs).

To appear in the proceedings of 'The Shocking Universe', held in Venice on September 14-18, 2009