The ROSAT All-Sky Survey of active binary coronae. II - Coronal temperatures of the RS Canum Venaticorum systems

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Aug 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993apj...413..333d&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 413, no. 1, p. 333-338.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

123

Binary Stars, Rosat Mission, Sky Surveys (Astronomy), Stellar Activity, Stellar Coronas, Stellar Temperature, Emission Spectra, Late Stars

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We present the results from an analysis of X-ray spectra of 44 RS CVn systems obtained during the ROSAT All-Sky Survey with the Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC). Thermal plasma models with two temperature components are found to reproduce the observations better than single or continuous temperature models. We typically find that a bimodal distribution of temperatures centered near 2 x 10 exp 6 and 1.6 x 10 exp 7 K fit the data best. We show that the PSPC temperatures agree well with those from similar low-resolution measurements, although differences exist, primarily due to differing detector bandpasses. After comparing coronal (either temperature or emission measure) characteristics with stellar parameters including rotation period and dynamo number, we find no compelling relationship. The height-integrated emission measures of the components in the two-temperature models, including a gravity term, are found to be well correlated with temperature.

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