Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-08-30
Astrophys.J.635:1116-1125,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
24 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/497532
The X-ray emission properties from the hot thermalized plasma that results from the collisions of individual stellar winds and supernovae ejecta within rich and compact star clusters are discussed. We propose a simple analytical way of estimating the X-ray emission generated by super star clusters and derive an expression that indicates how this X-ray emission depends on the main cluster parameters. Our model predicts that the X-ray luminosity from the star cluster region is highly dependent on the star cluster wind terminal speed, a quantity related to the temperature of the thermalized ejecta.We have also compared the X-ray luminosity from the SSC plasma with the luminosity of the interstellar bubbles generated from the mechanical interaction of the high velocity star cluster winds with the ISM.We found that the hard (2.0 keV - 8.0 keV) X-ray emission is usually dominated by the hotter SSC plasma whereas the soft (0.3 keV - 2.0 keV) component is dominated by the bubble plasma. This implies that compact and massive star clusters should be detected as point-like hard X-ray sources embedded into extended regions of soft diffuse X-ray emission. We also compared our results with predictions from the population synthesis models that take into consideration binary systems and found that in the case of young,massive and compact super star clusters the X-ray emission from the thermalized star cluster plasma may be comparable or even larger than that expected from the HMXB population.
Anorve Zeferino Gabriel Alejandro
Silich Sergiy
Tenorio-Tagle Guillermo
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