Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Feb 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010head...11.1712g&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #17.12; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.684
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The Great Nebula in Carina is a superb site to study the violent massive star formation and feedback that typifies giant HII regions and starburst galaxies. We have combined 20 deep, new Chandra ACIS-I pointings with two existing ACIS-I fields to map over one square degree of the Carina complex. A state-of-the-art source detection algorithm has been used to create a catalog of 14,368 x-ray sources, the great majority with counterparts at near- and mid-infrared wavelengths. Carina contains the largest catalogued population of OB stars within 3 kpc, including many known binaries. In this paper, we report on the 130 x-ray detected OB and Wolf-Rayet Stars in the Carina complex. We use their x-ray spectra and light curves to categorize their x-ray emission. Not surprisingly, we find that the known OB and WolfRayet binaries have hard x-ray spectra and high Lx/Lbol strongly suggesting colling wind shocks. Most of the single OB stars have generally lower shock temperatures and lower Lx/Lbol, suggesting wind shocks embedded in the wind. About a dozen of the apparently single OB stars have harder x-ray spectra, and some time variability, possibly suggesting magnetically confined wind shocks, or flaring T Tauri companions.
Broos Patrick
Chandra Carina Complex Project
Cohen Doron
Corcoran Marj
Dickerson K.
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