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X射线、成团和恒星风结构

X-rays, clumping and stellar wind structures

Lidia Oskinova, Wolf-Rainer Hamann, Richard Ignace, Achim Feldmeier

摘要:

X射线辐射在大质量恒星中无处不在。在过去的十年里,X射线观测彻底改变了我们对恒星风的看法,但也打开了一个潘多拉的盒子,带来了紧迫的问题。穿透恒星风的X射线主要遭受连续吸收,这大大简化了辐射转移处理。为了理解大质量恒星的X射线辐射,必须考虑恒星风中的小尺度和大尺度结构。通过对X射线谱线的分析,可以推断风凝聚的参数,这是获得经验上正确的恒星质量损失率的前提。预测了大尺度结构(如CIR和赤道盘)对X射线发射的影响,新的观测正在测试理论预期。磁星的X射线辐射被证明比直接应用磁约束风模型所预期的更加多样化。当模型和观测取得进展时,许多关于大质量恒星X射线的悬而未决的问题将得到解答。

英文摘要:

X-ray emission is ubiquitous among massive stars. In the last decade, X-ray observations revolutionized our perception of stellar winds but opened a Pandora's box of urgent problems. X-rays penetrating stellar winds suffer mainly continuum absorption, which greatly simplifies the radiative transfer treatment. The small and large scale structures in stellar winds must be accounted for to understand the X-ray emission from massive stars. The analysis of X-ray spectral lines can help to infer the parameters of wind clumping, which is prerequisite for obtaining empirically correct stellar mass-loss rates. The imprint of large scale structures, such as CIRs and equatorial disks, on the X-ray emission is predicted, and new observations are testing theoretical expectations. The X-ray emission from magnetic stars proves to be more diverse than anticipated from the direct application of the magnetically-confined wind model. Many outstanding questions about X-rays from massive stars will be answered when the models and the observations advance.

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