A ROSAT Survey of Contact Binary Stars

Details A ROSAT Survey of Contact Binary Stars A ROSAT Survey of Contact Binary Stars

2005-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509820v1

Astron.J.131:633-637,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, 5 figures, accepted by AJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/498018

Contact binary stars are common variable stars which are all believed to emit relatively large fluxes of x-rays. In this work we combine a large new sample of contact binary stars derived from the ROTSE-I telescope with x-ray data from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) to estimate the x-ray volume emissivity of contact binary stars in the galaxy. We obtained x-ray fluxes for 140 contact binaries from the RASS, as well as 2 additional stars observed by the XMM-Newton observatory. From these data we confirm the emission of x-rays from all contact binary systems, with typical luminosities of approximately 1.0 x 10^30 erg s^-1. Combining calculated luminosities with an estimated contact binary space density, we find that contact binaries do not have strong enough x-ray emission to account for a significant portion of the galactic x-ray background.

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