Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-09-29
Astron.J.128:2677-2695,2004
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 4 figures, accepted by AJ (to appear in Nov issue)
Scientific paper
10.1086/424540
XMM-Newton observations of the polar SDSSJ155331.12+551614.5 reveal that all the X-ray flux emerges at energies less than 2 keV. The best fit to the spectrum is with a thermal plasma with kT=0.8 keV plus a 20-90 ev black body, yielding a thermal X-ray luminosity of 8-9.5E28 ergs/s. The low temperature and X-ray luminosity, together with the lack of variation of the X-ray flux during the observations, are all consistent with an extremely low accretion rate that puts the system in the bombardment regime of accretion, rather than accretion involving a standoff shock. It is likely that the observed X-rays originate from the M dwarf secondary star, thus providing a base activity level for late main sequence stars in close binaries. SDSSJ132411.57+032050.5 is detected by XMM-Newton at the faint EPIC pn count rate of 0.0012 c/s, giving an upper limit to the X-ray luminosity of 7E28 ergs/s for a distance of 300 pc, which is also consistent with the above scenario.
Anderson Scott
Brinkmann John
Chen Bing
Henden Arne A.
Hoard Don
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