Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-06-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
19 pages, 6 figures (3 in color). Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. Electronic version of Table 1, and hig
Scientific paper
10.1086/301523
About 1000 X-ray emitting young pre-main sequence (PMS) stars distributed in mass from 0.05 to 50 solar masses are detected in an image of the Orion Nebula obtained with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer on board the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This is the richest field of sources ever obtained in X-ray astronomy. ACIS sources include 85-90% of V<20 stars, plus a substantial fraction of deeply embedded stars with extinctions as high as A_V~60. The relationships between X-ray and other PMS stellar properties suggest that X-ray luminosity of lower-mass PMS stars depends more on mass, and possibly stellar rotation, than on bolometric luminosity as widely reported. A subsample of unabsorbed solar-mass stars show high X-ray luminosities around L_x ~ 2 x 10^30 erg/s for the first ~2 My but diverge during 2-10 My with X-ray emission plummeting in some stars but remaining high in others. This behavior is consistent with theories of stellar rotational history and magnetic dynamos. The Becklin-Neugebauer/Kleinman-Low (BN/KL) region of massive star formation shows both unabsorbed and embedded low-mass members of the Orion Nebula Cluster, the luminous infrared Source n, and a class of sources without photospheric counterparts that may be new magnetically active embedded PMS stars. Several X-ray sources are also variable radio emitters. Faint X-ray emission is seen close to, but apparently not coincident with the BN object. Its nature is not clear.
Broos Patrick
Feigelson Eric D.
Garmire Gordon
Hillenbrand Lynne A.
Pravdo Steven Howard
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