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磁活动恒星的日冕被耀斑加热了吗?II。EUV和X射线耀斑统计和差分发射量分布

Are Coronae of Magnetically Active Stars Heated by Flares? II. EUV and X-Ray Flare Statistics and the Differential Emission Measure Distribution

Manuel Guedel, Marc Audard, Vinay L. Kashyap, Jeremy J. Drake, Edward F. Guinan

摘要:

利用EUVE和BeppoSAX长时间观测资料,研究了晚型活动星AD Leo的EUV和X射线耀斑率在辐射能量上的分布。我们将观测到的光变曲线与根据具有可选指数α(dN/dE ~ E^{-α})的幂律分布的能量模型耀斑合成的光变曲线进行比较。应用两种方法,第一种比较分组数据的通量分布,第二种使用未分组数据中的光子到达时间差的分布。对于EUVE DS和BeppoSAX LECS数据,我们发现可接受的α值在2.0-2.5之间。BeppoSAX MECS数据表明能量分布比LECS数据略浅,这是由于MECS探测器的灵敏度范围较硬,以及耀斑峰值温度随总(辐射)能量增加而增加。结果表明,耀斑可以发挥重要的作用,在这个活动的日冕的能量释放。我们讨论了与时间变异性,总能量和多个幂律分布有关的警告。研究的限制情况下,完全由人口的耀斑加热的日冕,我们推导出的时间平均的日冕差分发射测量分布(DEM),可用作诊断的耀斑能量分布的表达式。分析DEM的形状同意与以前公布的DEM从活跃的恒星的观测。

英文摘要:

(Abridged) We investigate the EUV and X-ray flare rate distribution in radiated energy of the late-type active star AD Leo using long EUVE and BeppoSAX observations. We compare the observed light curves with light curves synthesized from model flares that are distributed in energy according to a power law with selectable index alpha (dN/dE ~ E^{-alpha}). Two methods are applied, the first comparing flux distributions of the binned data, and the second using the distributions of photon arrival time differences in the unbinned data. We find acceptable alpha values between 2.0-2.5 for the EUVE DS and the BeppoSAX LECS data. The BeppoSAX MECS data indicate a somewhat shallower energy distribution than the LECS data, which is attributed to the harder range of sensitivity of the MECS detector and the increasing peak temperatures of flares with increasing total (radiative) energy. The results suggest that flares can play an important role in the energy release of this active corona. We discuss caveats related to time variability, total energy, and multiple power-law distributions. Studying the limiting case of a corona that is entirely heated by a population of flares, we derive an expression for the time-averaged coronal differential emission measure distribution (DEM) that can be used as a diagnostic for the flare energy distribution. The shape of the analytical DEM agrees with previously published DEMs from observations of active stars.

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