ASCA detection of a superhot 100 million K X-ray flare on the weak-lined T Tauri star V773 Tauri

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作者
Tsuboi, Y [1 ]
Koyama, K
Murakami, H
Hayashi, M
Skinner, S
Ueno, S
机构
[1] Kyoto Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Phys, Sakyo Ku, Kyoto 6068502, Japan
[2] Subaru Telescope, Hilo, HI 96720 USA
[3] Univ Colorado, Joint Inst Lab Astrophys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[4] Univ Leicester, Dept Phys & Astron, Leicester LE1 7RH, Leics, England
关键词
stars : coronae; stars; individual; (HD; 283447; V773; Tauri); stars : late-type; stars : pre-main-sequence;
D O I
10.1086/306024
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present results of a approximate to 40 ks ASCA observation of the active weak-lined T Tauri star V773 Tau (HD 283447) and the surrounding Barnard 209 dark cloud, obtained in 1995 February. During this observation, V773 Tau exhibited a dramatic X-ray flare, with the X-ray count rate increasing rapidly by a factor of similar to 20, then decreasing exponentially with an e-folding timescale of approximate to 2.3 hr. The peak flare luminosity was at least similar to 10(33) ergs s(-1) (0.7-10 keV; distance = 150 pc), which is among the highest X-ray luminosities observed to date for T Tauri stars. The total energy release was similar to 10(37) ergs. However, the most spectacular aspect of this hare was its temperature, which reached a maximum value of at least 100 million K. Spectral fits near flare maximum give a temperature of similar to 10 keV, which slowly declined to a value similar to 6 keV at the end of the observation. These temperature measurements are based on high signal-to-noise ratio spectra, and provide the first unambiguous evidence for superhot flaring plasma at temperatures of similar to 10(8) K in T Tauri stars. A simple cooling-loop model gives electron densities that are similar to those of solar flares, but requires loop sizes that are comparable to or larger than the star itself. The flare showed other interesting behavior, including a high (and possibly variable) absorption column density, N-H = 4 x 10(22) cm(-2), and an apparent increase in the global metal abundance during the flare.
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