Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aas...20713209t&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #132.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1381
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We present an X-ray tour of the 30 Doradus star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud using high-spatial-resolution X-ray images and spatially-resolved spectra obtained with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer aboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory. R136, the central massive star cluster, is resolved at the arcsecond level into over 100 X-ray sources. Two orders of magnitude of scatter in LX/Lbol is seen among R136 O stars, suggesting that X-ray emission depends critically on the details of wind properties and binarity. Yet the dominant X-ray feature in 30 Doradus remains the intricate network of diffuse emission created by interacting stellar winds and supernovae working together to create vast superbubbles filled with hot plasma. Through X-ray studies of 30 Doradus the complete life cycle of a massive stellar cluster is revealed.
Brandl Bernhard R.
Broos Patrick S.
Chu Y.-H. Y.-H.
Feigelson Eric D.
Garmire Gordon P.
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