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确定发射晚B型X射线恒星的伴星候选者的性质

Establishing the nature of companion candidates to X-ray emitting late B-type stars

S. Hubrig, O. Marco, B. Stelzer, M. Schoeller, N. Huelamo

摘要:

对于探测到晚期B型恒星的X射线发射,最受欢迎的解释是,这些恒星有一个尚未发现的晚期伴星(或附近一颗未束缚的晚期恒星)产生X射线。在我们早期的自适应光学成像观测中,发现了几个与B型星相距(亚)角秒的微弱红外天体,其中一些天体已经被钱德拉X射线天文台的高空间分辨率跟踪,精确定位了X射线发射体。然而,关于其性质的确切结论需要寻找年轻人的光谱特征。在这里,我们报告了我们最近在低分辨率光谱模式下进行的ISAAC观测。等效宽度已被用来获得有关同伴的光谱类型的信息。所有八个X射线发射系统与晚B型原色研究包含矮像同伴的光谱类型晚于A7。在样本中,唯一一个伴星被证明是早期光谱类型的系统不是X射线源。这些结果与观测到的晚B型星的X射线辐射是由活跃的前主序星伴星产生的假设是一致的。

英文摘要:

The most favored interpretation for the detection of X-ray emission from late B-type stars is that these stars have a yet undiscovered late-type companion (or an unbound nearby late-type star) that produces the X-rays. Several faint IR objects at (sub)-arcsecond separation from B-type stars have been uncovered in our earlier adaptive optics imaging observations, and some of them have been followed up with the high spatial resolution of the Chandra X-ray observatory, pinpointing the X-ray emitter. However, firm conclusions on their nature requires a search for spectroscopic signatures of youth. Here we report on our recent ISAAC observations carried out in low resolution spectroscopic mode. Equivalent widths have been used to obtain information on spectral types of the companions. All eight X-ray emitting systems with late B-type primaries studied contain dwarf like companions with spectral types later than A7. The only system in the sample where the companion turns out to be of early spectral type is not an X-ray source. These results are consistent with the assumption that the observed X-ray emission from late B-type stars is produced by an active pre-main sequence companion star.

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