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May 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997natur.387...56g&link_type=abstract
nature, Volume 387, Issue 6628, pp. 56-58 (1997).
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Class I protostars1 are very young, low-mass stellar objects that are, according to current models, composite: they include a central star (still in the process of formation) surrounded by an accretion disk ˜10-10OAu in radius and embedded in an extended, infalling envelope of gas and dust up to ˜104 AU in size2. X-ray emission from such protostars has recently been reported3,4, suggesting that X-ray ionization of gas and heating of dust could profoundly influence the physical and chemical properties of young stellar systems. But these observations did not have the resolution necessary to rule out a non-protostar origin for the emissions. Here we report X-ray observations of one of the nearest star-forming regions-the ρ Ophiuchi cloud-that clearly show an intense X-ray flare associated with a deeply embedded protostar. The peak X-ray luminosity, after correcting for extinction, is >=10-100 times the Sun's bolometric luminosity. The behaviour and intensity of the flare can be modelled as arising from a magnetically confined, low-density plasma bubble ˜0.050-0.3 Au in diameter (much larger than the star itself), and the X-ray luminosity equals or exceeds the bolometric luminosity of the forming star. Taken together, the evidence suggests that the X-rays are not created by the type of magnetic activity seen on the Sun or on other young low-mass stars, but rather are associated with processes in the circumstellar accretion disk or within the envelope.
Andre Pascal
Casanova Sabrina
Feigelson Eric D.
Gregorio-Hetem Jane
Grosso Nicolas
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