Chandra X-ray observations of Young Clusters II. Orion Flanking Fields Data

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2004-05-01

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0405003v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

AJ in press, 32 pages, 13 figures in total, 5 figures available at http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/solange/ramirez07_figs

Scientific paper

10.1086/422349

We present results of Chandra observations of two flanking fields (FF) in Orion, outside the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). The observations were taken with the ACIS-I camera with an exposure time of about 48 ks each field. We present a catalog of 417 sources, which includes X-ray luminosity, optical and infrared photometry and X-ray variability information. We have found 91 variable sources, 33 of which have a flare-like light curve, and 11 of which have a pattern of a steady increase or decrease over a 10 hour period. The optical and infrared photometry for the stars identified as X-ray sources are consistent with most of these objects being pre-main sequence stars with ages younger than 10 Myr. We present evidence for an age difference among the X-ray selected samples of NGC 2264, Orion FF, and ONC, with NGC 2264 being the oldest, and ONC being the youngest.

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