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X-Atlas:钱德拉恒星高能传输光栅观测的在线档案

X-Atlas: An Online Archive of Chandra's Stellar High Energy Transmission Gratings Observations

Owen W. Westbrook, Nancy Remage Evans, Scott J. Wolk, Vinay L. Kashyap, Joy S. Nichols, Peter J. Mendygral, Jonathan D. Slavin, Bradley Spitzbart, Wayne L. Waldron

摘要:

1999年钱德拉X射线天文台的部署使高分辨率X射线光谱学成为可能,彻底改变了我们对恒星X射线发射的理解。然而,仍然有许多谜团,特别是关于OB星X射线发射的机制。虽然已经以高分辨率观测到了许多单个恒星,但要实现这些观测的全部科学潜力,就必须将高分辨率钱德拉数据集作为一个整体进行研究。为了便于快速比较和表征恒星光谱,我们编制了一个统一处理的数据库,所有恒星观测的钱德拉高能透射光栅(HETG)。该数据库称为X-Atlas,可通过具有搜索、数据检索和交互式绘图功能的网络界面进入。对于每一个目标,X-Atlas还具有预测低分辨率ACIS光谱的功能,这些光谱是从HETG数据中卷积出来的,用于与ACIS存档图像中的恒星源进行比较。初步分析的硬度比,分位数和光谱拟合来自预测的ACIS光谱揭示了系统的差异之间的高质量和低质量的恒星在图集中,并提供证据,至少有两个不同的类的高质量恒星。在高质量和低质量的恒星中也可以看到高度的X射线变化,包括长期以来被认为表现出最小变化的五车二。X-Atlas包含大约25颗大质量恒星和40颗低质量恒星的130多个观测数据,并将随着更多恒星HETG观测数据的公布而更新。该图集最近已扩展到非恒星点源,目前也正在增加低能透射光栅(LETG)观测。

英文摘要:

The high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy made possible by the 1999 deployment of the Chandra X-ray Observatory has revolutionized our understanding of stellar X-ray emission. Many puzzles remain, though, particularly regarding the mechanisms of X-ray emission from OB stars. Although numerous individual stars have been observed in high-resolution, realizing the full scientific potential of these observations will necessitate studying the high-resolution Chandra dataset as a whole. To facilitate the rapid comparison and characterization of stellar spectra, we have compiled a uniformly processed database of all stars observed with the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating (HETG). This database, known as X-Atlas, is accessible through a web interface with searching, data retrieval, and interactive plotting capabilities. For each target, X-Atlas also features predictions of the low-resolution ACIS spectra convolved from the HETG data for comparison with stellar sources in archival ACIS images. Preliminary analyses of the hardness ratios, quantiles, and spectral fits derived from the predicted ACIS spectra reveal systematic differences between the high-mass and low-mass stars in the atlas and offer evidence for at least two distinct classes of high-mass stars. A high degree of X-ray variability is also seen in both high and low-mass stars, including Capella, long thought to exhibit minimal variability. X-Atlas contains over 130 observations of approximately 25 high-mass stars and 40 low-mass stars and will be updated as additional stellar HETG observations become public. The atlas has recently expanded to non-stellar point sources, and Low Energy Transmission Grating (LETG) observations are currently being added as well.

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