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大质量OB星的X射线:辐射激波的热辐射

X-Rays From Massive OB Stars: Thermal Emission From Radiative Shocks

Svetozar A. Zhekov, Francesco Palla

摘要:

钱德拉光栅光谱的15个大质量OB星的样本进行了分析的基本假设下,X射线发射产生的冲击在这些物体驱动的风中形成的合奏。激波的形成要么是辐射驱动的不稳定性的结果,要么是由于风被相对较强的磁场限制,由于它们是辐射性的,因此建立了一个简单的X射线发射模型,可以与观测结果直接比较。根据我们的模型,激波结构(团块,完整或部分壳)最终成为“冷”云的X射线天空中的恒星。因此,预计对于热团块的大覆盖系数,“冷”云吸收X射线的可能性很高,导致谱线蓝移。我们的分析表明,这样的相关性确实存在的OB星的考虑样本。关于X射线等离子体的温度特性,所研究的OB星可分为两类:一类等离子体温度限于0.1- 0.4keV,另一类等离子体中产生的X射线温度高得多。我们认为,这两组对应于不同的机制的X射线的起源:在辐射驱动的不稳定冲击和磁约束的风冲击,分别。

英文摘要:

Chandra gratings spectra of a sample of 15 massive OB stars were analyzed under the basic assumption that the X-ray emission is produced in an ensemble of shocks formed in the winds driven by these objects. Shocks develop either as a result of radiation-driven instabilities or due to confinement of the wind by relatively strong magnetic field, and since they are radiative, a simple model of their X-ray emission was developed that allows a direct comparison with observations. According to our model, the shock structures (clumps, complete or fractional shells) eventually become `cold' clouds in the X-ray sky of the star. As a result, it is expected that for large covering factors of the hot clumps, there is a high probability for X-ray absorption by the `cold' clouds, resulting in blue-shifted spectral lines. Our analysis has revealed that such a correlation indeed exists for the considered sample of OB stars. As to the temperature characteristics of the X-ray emission plasma, the studied OB stars fall in two groups: (i) one with plasma temperature limited to 0.1-0.4 keV; (ii) the other wtih X-rays produced in plasmas at considerably higher temperatures. We argue that the two groups correspond to different mechanisms for the origin of X-rays: in radiative-driven instability shocks and in magnetically-confined wind shocks, respectively.

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