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Carina ob stars: x-ray signatures of wind shocks and magnetic FIELDS

  • The Chandra Carina Complex contains 200 known O- and B-type stars. The Chandra survey detected 68 of the 70 O stars and 61 of 127 known B0-B3 stars. We have assembled a publicly available optical/X-ray database to identify OB stars that depart from the canonical L-X/L-bol relation or whose average X-ray temperatures exceed 1 keV. Among the single O stars with high kT we identify two candidate magnetically confined wind shock sources: Tr16-22, O8.5 V, and LS 1865, O8.5 V((f)). The O4 III(fc) star HD 93250 exhibits strong, hard, variable X-rays, suggesting that it may be a massive binary with a period of > 30 days. The visual O2 If* binary HD 93129A shows soft 0.6 keV and hard 1.9 keV emission components, suggesting embedded wind shocks close to the O2 If* Aa primary and colliding wind shocks between Aa and Ab. Of the 11 known O-type spectroscopic binaries, the long orbital-period systems HD 93343, HD 93403, and QZ Car have higher shock temperatures than short-period systems such as HD 93205 and FO 15. Although the X-rays from most BThe Chandra Carina Complex contains 200 known O- and B-type stars. The Chandra survey detected 68 of the 70 O stars and 61 of 127 known B0-B3 stars. We have assembled a publicly available optical/X-ray database to identify OB stars that depart from the canonical L-X/L-bol relation or whose average X-ray temperatures exceed 1 keV. Among the single O stars with high kT we identify two candidate magnetically confined wind shock sources: Tr16-22, O8.5 V, and LS 1865, O8.5 V((f)). The O4 III(fc) star HD 93250 exhibits strong, hard, variable X-rays, suggesting that it may be a massive binary with a period of > 30 days. The visual O2 If* binary HD 93129A shows soft 0.6 keV and hard 1.9 keV emission components, suggesting embedded wind shocks close to the O2 If* Aa primary and colliding wind shocks between Aa and Ab. Of the 11 known O-type spectroscopic binaries, the long orbital-period systems HD 93343, HD 93403, and QZ Car have higher shock temperatures than short-period systems such as HD 93205 and FO 15. Although the X-rays from most B stars may be produced in the coronae of unseen, low-mass pre-main-sequence companions, a dozen B stars with high L-X cannot be explained by a distribution of unseen companions. One of these, SS73 24 in the Treasure Chest cluster, is a new candidate Herbig Be star.show moreshow less

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Author details:Marc Gagne, Garrett Fehon, Michael R. Savoy, David H. Cohen, Leisa K. Townsley, Patrick S. Broos, Matthew S. Povich, Michael F. Corcoran, Nolan R. Walborn, Nancy Remage Evans, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Yael Naze, Lida OskinovaORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/194/1/5
ISSN:0067-0049
Title of parent work (English):The astrophysical journal : an international review of spectroscopy and astronomical physics ; Supplement series
Publisher:IOP Publ. Ltd.
Place of publishing:Bristol
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Year of first publication:2011
Publication year:2011
Release date:2017/03/26
Tag:X-rays: stars; open clusters and associations: individual (Cl Bochum 10, Cl Bochum 11, Cl Collinder 228, Cl Trumpler 14, Cl Trumpler 15, Cl Trumpler 16); stars: early-type; stars: individual (HD 93250, HD 93129A, HD 93403, HD 93205, HD 93343, QZ Car, SS73 24, FO 15, Cl Trumpler 16 22, CPD-59 2610, HD 93501)
Volume:194
Issue:1
Number of pages:26
Funding institution:SAO/Chandra X-ray Observatory [GO8-9014X, G09-0019A]; Chandra X-ray Observatory [GO8-9131X]; ACIS Instrument Team [SV4-74018]; NSERC (Canada); FQRNT (Quebec); Space Telescope Science Institute; NASA [NAS5-26555]; NSF [AST-0901646]
Organizational units:Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie
Peer review:Referiert
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