TY  - JOUR
A1  - Toala, Jesús Alberto
A1  - Oskinova, Lida
A1  - Gonzalez-Galan, Ana
A1  - Guerrero, Martín A.
A1  - Ignace, R.
A1  - Pohl, Martin
T1  - X-RAY OBSERVATIONS OF BOW SHOCKS AROUND RUNAWAY O STARS. THE CASE OF zeta OPH AND BD+43 degrees 3654
JF  - The astrophysical journal : an international review of spectroscopy and astronomical physics
N2  - Non-thermal radiation has been predicted within bow shocks around runaway stars by recent theoretical works. We present X-ray observations toward the runaway stars zeta Oph by Chandra and Suzaku and of BD+43 degrees 3654 by XMM-Newton to search for the presence of non-thermal X-ray emission. We found no evidence of non-thermal emission spatially coincident with the bow shocks; nonetheless, diffuse emission was detected in the vicinity of zeta Oph. After a careful analysis of its spectral characteristics, we conclude that this emission has a thermal nature with a plasma temperature of T approximate to 2 x 10(6) K. The cometary shape of this emission seems to be in line with recent predictions of radiation-hydrodynamic models of runaway stars. The case of BD+43 degrees 3654 is puzzling, as non-thermal emission has been reported in a previous work for this source.
KW  - stars: individual (zeta Oph, BD+43 degrees 3654)
KW  - stars: winds, outflows
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/821/2/79
SN  - 0004-637X
SN  - 1538-4357
VL  - 821
PB  - IOP Publ. Ltd.
CY  - Bristol
ER  -