Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001a%26a...378l..21o&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.378, p.L21-L24 (2001)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Stars: Early-Type, Stars: Individual: Zeta Ophiuchi, Stars: Individual: Zeta Puppis, X-Rays: Stars
Scientific paper
Archived measurements by the X-ray Telescope on board the ASCA satellite of the single runaway O9.5V star, zeta Ophiuchi, are analysed. The data set is unique as it covers just more than one full rotational period of the star. We report a clearly detected periodic X-ray flux variability with amplitude ~ 20% in the ASCA passband (0.5-10 keV). The detected period { ~ } 0fd77 possibly indicates a connection with the recurrence time (0fd875 +/- 0fd167 ) of the discrete absorption components (DACs) in UV spectra of the star, thought to be due to the presence of large scale structures in the stellar wind modulated by rotation. We attribute the X-ray fluctuation with an uneven distribution of X-ray absorbing material. We also report that an analysis of similar ASCA observations of zeta Puppis failed to confirm earlier reported variability of X-rays from this star based on Rosat observations.
Clarke David
Oskinova Lida M.
Pollock Andy M. T.
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