The X-ray Luminosities of HH Objects

Details The X-ray Luminosities of HH Objects The X-ray Luminosities of HH Objects

2002-08-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0208079v1

Astrophys.J. 576 (2002) L149-L152

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages (8 text, 2 figures)

Scientific paper

10.1086/343760

The recent detection of X-ray emission from HH 2 and HH 154 with the Chandra and XMM-Newton satellites (respectively) have opened up an interesting, new observational possibility in the field of Herbig-Haro objects. In order to be able to plan further X-ray observations of other HH objects, it is now of interest to be able to estimate their X-ray luminosities in order to choose which objects to observe. This paper describes a simple, analytic model for predicting the X-ray luminosity of a bow shock from the parameters of the flow (i.e., the size of the bow shock, its velocity, and the pre-shock density). The accuracy of the analytic model is analyzed through a comparison with the predictions obtained from axisymmetric, gasdynamic simulations of the leading working surface of an HH jet. We find that our analytic model reproduces the observed X-ray luminosities of HH 2 and HH 154, and we propose that HH~80/81 is a good candidate for future observations with Chandra.

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