On the origin of the X-ray emission from Herbig Ae/Be stars
arXiv:astro-ph/0605590 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20065006
Abstract
We performed a systematic search for Chandra archival observations of Herbig Ae/Be stars. These stars are fully radiative and not expected to support dynamo action analogous to their convective lower-mass counterparts, the T Tauri stars. Their X-ray emission has remained unexplained. The superior spatial resolution of Chandra with respect to previous X-ray instrumentation has allowed us to examine the possible role of late-type companions in generating the observed X-rays. In the total sample of 17 Herbig Ae/Be stars, 8 are resolved from X-ray emitting faint companions or other unrelated X-ray bright objects within 10". The detection fraction of Herbig Ae/Be stars is 76 %, but lowers to 35 % if all emission is attributed to further known and unresolved companions. The spectral analysis confirms the high X-ray temperatures (~ 20 MK) and large range of fractional X-ray luminosities (log L_x/L_star) of this class derived from earlier studies of individual objects. Radiative winds are ruled out as emission mechanism on basis of the high temperatures. The X-ray properties of Herbig Ae/Be stars are not vastly different from those of their late-type companion stars (if such are known), nor from other young late-type stars used for comparison. Therefore, either a similar kind of process takes place on both classes of objects, or there must be as yet undiscovered companion stars.
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