A giant X-ray flare on the young star P1724.

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Dec 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995a%26a...304l..13p&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.304, p.L13

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Stars: Flare, Stars: Pre-Main-Sequence, Stars: Coronae, X-Rays: Stars

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We present ROSAT X-ray observations as well as optical photometry and spectroscopy of the young stellar object P1724 in Orion. During a ROSAT observation in September 1992 P1724 showed a giant flare, where the X-ray count rate rose by more than a factor of 26 and then showed an exponential decay with a very long decay time of about 9 hours. P1724 is not a clear proper motion member to the Orion nebula association and, hence, its distance is not well established, but we present new spectroscopic and photometric evidence indicating that P1724 is a weak-line TTS associated with the Orion star forming region. For a distance of ~500pc, the total flare energy radiated in the ROSAT X-ray band (0.1-2.4keV) is more than ~5x10^37^erg. This is an order of magnitude above the highest energies of flares on young stars found so far, making this event the largest X-ray flare ever observed on a star.

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