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麦哲伦星云中沃尔夫-拉叶星的X射线巡天。I. Chandra ACIS数据集

An X-ray Survey of Wolf-Rayet Stars in the Magellanic Clouds. I. The Chandra ACIS Dataset

Martin A. Guerrero, You-Hua Chu

摘要:

沃尔夫-拉叶(WR)星是演化中的大质量恒星,具有强烈的快速恒星风。我们银河系中的WR星已经显示出与它们的风相关的X射线发射的三种可能来源:风中的冲击,碰撞的恒星风和风吹的气泡;然而,观测的定量分析经常受到距离的不确定性和严重的前景吸收的阻碍。这些问题在麦哲伦云(MC)中得到了缓解,这些云位于已知的距离处,并且具有小的前景和内部消光。因此,我们已经开始调查X射线发射与WR星在MC档案钱德拉,ROSAT,和XMM牛顿观测。在本系列的第一篇论文中,我们使用192个Chandra ACIS观测档案报告了MCs中70颗WR星的结果。探测到29颗WR星的X射线辐射。我们研究了它们的X射线光谱特性、光度和时间变化。这些X射线源的光度都大于10^32尔格·秒^-1的数倍,光谱表明在WR+OB双星系统中,在典型的碰撞风中,在高温下薄等离子体会产生高度吸收的辐射。显着的X射线变化周期从几个小时到20天不等,被认为与几个WR星。在大多数情况下,X射线变异性可以与二元系统中WR星的轨道运动联系起来,进一步支持这些恒星的X射线发射起源的碰撞风情景。

英文摘要:

Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars are evolved massive stars with strong fast stellar winds. WR stars in our Galaxy have shown three possible sources of X-ray emission associated with their winds: shocks in the winds, colliding stellar winds, and wind-blown bubbles; however, quantitative analyses of observations are often hampered by uncertainties in distances and heavy foreground absorption. These problems are mitigated in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs), which are at known distances and have small foreground and internal extinction. We have therefore started a survey of X-ray emission associated with WR stars in the MCs using archival Chandra, ROSAT, and XMM-Newton observations. In the first paper of this series, we report the results for 70 WR stars in the MCs using 192 archival Chandra ACIS observations. X-ray emission is detected from 29 WR stars. We have investigated their X-ray spectral properties, luminosities, and temporal variability. These X-ray sources all have luminosities greater than a few times 10^32 ergs s^-1, with spectra indicative of highly absorbed emission from a thin plasma at high temperatures typical of colliding winds in WR+OB binary systems. Significant X-ray variability with periods ranging from a few hours up to ~20 days is seen associated with several WR stars. In most of these cases, the X-ray variability can be linked to the orbital motion of the WR star in a binary system, further supporting the colliding wind scenario for the origin of the X-ray emission from these stars.

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