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猎户座星云团最强X射线闪耀星星盘相互作用的研究

A Search for Star-Disk Interaction Among the Strongest X-ray Flaring Stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster

Alicia N. Aarnio, Keivan G. Stassun, Sean P. Matt

摘要:

钱德拉猎户座超深项目观测到数百颗年轻的低质量恒星正在经历高能X射线耀斑事件。32个最强大的情况下,已经模拟的结果,这些耀斑的磁结构可以是许多恒星半径的范围内。在本文中,我们观察到的光谱能量分布的这32颗恒星的模型,以确定,在详细的每一颗恒星,是否有位于足够接近恒星表面的大磁回路推断从观测到的X射线耀斑相互作用的星周盘材料。我们的光谱能量分布跨越波长范围0.3-8微米(加上24微米的一些恒星),使我们能够限制尘埃拱星物质的存在,在大多数情况下,从恒星表面>10天文单位。对于我们样本中的32颗恒星中的24颗,可用的数据足以限制尘埃盘内边缘的位置。其中六个(25%)的光谱能量分布与所观察到的磁环范围内的内盘一致。另外四颗恒星可能在尘埃盘内部有气体盘,并延伸到磁环的范围内,但我们无法用现有的数据证实这一点。剩下的14颗恒星(58%)似乎在大耀斑环的范围内没有明显的盘状物质。因此,高达40%的样本恒星表现出高能X射线耀斑,这可能是由磁星-盘相互作用引起的,其余的显然与只锚定在恒星表面的超大型独立磁环有关。

英文摘要:

The Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project observed hundreds of young, low-mass stars undergoing highly energetic X-ray flare events. The 32 most powerful cases have been modeled with the result that the magnetic structures responsible for these flares can be many stellar radii in extent. In this paper, we model the observed spectral energy distributions of these 32 stars in order to determine, in detail for each star, whether there is circumstellar disk material situated in sufficient proximity to the stellar surface for interaction with the large magnetic loops inferred from the observed X-ray flares. Our spectral energy distributions span the wavelength range 0.3-8 um (plus 24 um for some stars), allowing us to constrain the presence of dusty circumstellar material out to >10 AU from the stellar surface in most cases. For 24 of the 32 stars in our sample the available data are sufficient to constrain the location of the inner edge of the dusty disks. Six of these (25%) have spectral energy distributions consistent with inner disks within reach of the observed magnetic loops. Another four stars may have gas disks interior to the dust disk and extending within reach of the magnetic loops, but we cannot confirm this with the available data. The remaining 14 stars (58%) appear to have no significant disk material within reach of the large flaring loops. Thus, up to ~40% of the sample stars exhibit energetic X-ray flares that possibly arise from a magnetic star-disk interaction, and the remainder are evidently associated with extremely large, free-standing magnetic loops anchored only to the stellar surface.

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