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赫比格星的进一步X射线探测

Further X-ray detections of Herbig stars

B. Stelzer, J. Robrade, J. H. M. M. Schmitt, J. Bouvier

摘要:

对赫比格Ae/Be星的X射线探测结果的解释存在争议,因为尚不清楚这些中等质量的前主序星是否能够驱动发电机以及随之而来的磁活动现象。其他的X射线产生机制,与恒星风、星盘磁层或尚未解决的晚型金牛座T星伴星有关。在一系列的论文中,我们一直在研究赫比格Ae/Be和主序星B型星的高分辨率X射线钱德拉图像,通过空间分辨已知的可见伴星来检验金牛座T假说。在这里,我们报告六个尚未公布的钱德拉曝光从我们的X射线调查赫比格星。目标列表包括六颗赫比格星和已知的冷伴星,以及另外三颗偶然出现在钱德拉视野中的A/B型恒星。在这个样品中,我们记录到100%的探测率,即所有A/B型星都显示出log(L_x/L_bol)~-5. -的X射线发射水平。7.硬度比的分析证实,HAeBe的有更热和/或更多的吸收X射线发射等离子体比更进化的B型星。根据高的X射线温度,排除了辐射风是唯一的发射机制。与早期的结果一致,赫比格Ae/Be星的X射线性质与它们的晚期伴星(如果已知的话)没有很大的不同。根据现有的数据,赫比格星的硬X射线发射是否是由于年轻或表明有更多的日冕活动的低质量伴星,这一问题尚待解决。在后一种情况下,我们的检测统计意味着高分数的高阶多重系统之间的赫比格恒星。

英文摘要:

The interpretation of X-ray detections from Herbig Ae/Be stars is disputed as it is not clear if these intermediate-mass pre-main sequence stars are able to drive a dynamo and ensuing phenomena of magnetic activity. Alternative X-ray production mechanisms, related to stellar winds, star-disk magnetospheres, or unresolved late-type T Tauri star companions have been proposed. In a series of papers we have been investigating high-resolution X-ray Chandra images of Herbig Ae/Be and main-sequence B-type stars to test the T Tauri hypothesis by spatially resolving known visual companions from the primaries. Here we report on six as yet unpublished Chandra exposures from our X-ray survey of Herbig stars. The target list comprises six Herbig stars with known cool companions, and three further A/B-type stars that are serendipitously in the Chandra field-of-view. In this sample we record a detection rate of 100%, i.e. all A/B-type stars display X-ray emission at levels of log(L_x/L_bol) ~ -5...-7. The analysis of hardness ratios confirms that HAeBe's have hotter and/or more absorbed X-ray emitting plasma than more evolved B-type stars. Radiative winds are ruled out as exclusive emission mechanism on basis of the high X-ray temperatures. Confirming earlier results, the X-ray properties of Herbig Ae/Be stars are not vastly different from those of their late-type companion stars (if such are known). The diagnostics provided by the presently available data leave open if the hard X-ray emission of Herbig stars is due to young age or indicative of further coronally active low-mass companion stars. In the latter case, our detection statistics imply a high fraction of higher-order multiple systems among Herbig stars.

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