Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-01-09
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
37 pages, 13 figures, to be published on A&A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20054003
We report on a deep X-ray survey of the young (~ 140 Myr), rich open cluster NGC 2516 obtained with the EPIC camera on board the XMM-Newton satellite. By combining data from six observations, a high sensitivity, greater than a factor 5 with respect to recent Chandra observations, has been achieved. We detected 431 X-ray sources and 234 of them have as optical counterparts cluster stars spanning the entire NGC 2516 Main Sequence. The X-ray luminosities of cluster stars span the range log Lx (erg/s) = 28.4 - 30.8. The representative temperatures span the 0.3 - 0.6 keV (3.5 - 8 MK) range for the cool component and 1.0 - 2.0 keV (12 -- 23 MK) for the hot one; similar values are found in other young open clusters like the Pleiades, IC 2391, and Blanco 1. While no significant differences are found in X-ray spectra, NGC 2516 solar type stars are definitely less luminous in X-rays than the nearly coeval Pleiades. The comparison with a previous ROSAT survey evidence the lack of variability amplitudes larger than a factor 2 in solar type stars in a ~11 yr time scale of the cluster and thus activity cycles like in the Sun are probably absent or different by period and amplitude in young stars.
Damiani Ferruccio
Micela Giuseppina
Pillitteri Ignazio
Sciortino Salvatore
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