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Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21542910m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #429.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.351
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The X-ray light curves of pre-main sequence stars can show variability in the form of flares altering a baseline characteristic activity level; the largest X-ray flares are characterized by a rapid rise to 10 or more times the characteristic count rate, followed by a slower quasi-exponential decay. Analysis of these high-contrast X-ray flares enables the study of the innermost magnetic fields of pre-main sequence stars. We have scanned the ANCHORS database of Chandra observations of star-forming regions to extend the study of flare events on pre-main sequence stars both in sky coverage and in volume. We developed a sample of 30 high-contrast flares out of the 14,000 stars available in ANCHORS at the time of our study. By not biasing our sample by cluster, age, or spectral type, we increased the number of X-ray flare events studied and subsequently the strength of any statements about their properties. Applying the generally accepted methods of time-resolved spectral analysis developed by Reale et al. (1997), we measured the temperatures, confining magnetic field strengths, and loop lengths of these large flares. The results of the flare analysis were compared to the 2MASS and Spitzer data available for the stars in our sample. We found that the longest flare loop lengths (of order several stellar radii) are only seen on stars whose IR data indicates the presence of disks, which suggests that the longest flares may stretch all the way to the disk. Such long flares tend to be more tenuous (rarified) than the other large flares studied. A wide range of loop lengths were observed, indicating that two types of flares may occur on disked young stellar objects: either compact and analogous to flares on evolved stars, or long and the result of star-disk magnetic connections.
McCleary Jacqueline
Wolk Scott
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