Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-04-15
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
53 pages, 14 figures, 3 tables. To appear in the Astrophysical Journal; scheduled for 2002, ApJ, 575 (August 10th). High quali
Scientific paper
10.1086/341219
NGC 1333, a highly active star formation region within the Perseus molecular cloud complex, has been observed with the ACIS-I detector on board the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In our image with a sensitivity limit of ~ 1e28 erg/s, we detect 127 X-ray sources, of which, 95 are known cluster members. The X-ray luminosity function of the discovered YSO population spans a range of 1e28-3.2e31 erg/s in the 0.5-8 keV band. Comparison with K-band source counts indicates that we detect all of the known cluster members with K < 12, and about half of members with K > 12. We detect seven X-ray emitting YSOs which drive optically visible jets as well as one deeply embedded object that has not been detected in near-IR observations. The presence or absence of an outflows does not appear to produce any difference in X-ray properties of YSOs. We also find no systematic differences in X-ray luminosity distributions between two complete subsamples of CTTs and WTTs. That suggests that there is no difference in the astrophysical mechanism of WTT and CTT X-ray emission production. Additional results include: the X-ray emission from two late-B stars which illuminate the reflection nebula originates from unresolved late-type companions; two T Tauri stars are discovered as previously unknown components of visual binaries; and the X-ray counterpart of SVS 16 has the column density much lower than that expected from near-IR photometry and thus its X-ray luminosity is not anomalously high, as has been previously suggested.
Bally John
Feigelson Eric D.
Getman Konstantin V.
Lada Charles J.
Reipurth Bo
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