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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
卷 194, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0067-0049/194/1/13
关键词
open clusters and associations: individual (Trumpler 16); stars: massive
资金
- Chandra X-ray Center NASA [NAS8-03060]
- Chandra [GO8-9131X]
- ACIS Instrument Team [SV4-74018]
- NASA [NAS8-03060]
- NSERC (Canada)
- FQRNT (Quebec)
- Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium)
- PRODEX XMM
- Action de Recherche Concertee (CFWB Academie Wallonie Europe)
- STScI
We have developed lists of likely B3-A0 stars (called late B stars) in the young cluster Trumpler 16. The following criteria were used: location within 3' of eta Car, an appropriate V and B - V combination, and proper motion (where available). Color and magnitude cuts have been made assuming an E(B - V) = 0.55 mag +/- 0.1, which is a good approximation close to the center of Trumpler 16. These lists have been cross-correlated with X-ray sources found in the Chandra Carina Complex Project. Previous studies have shown that only very rarely (if at all) do late main-sequence B stars produce X-rays. We present evidence that the X-ray-detected sources are binaries with low-mass companions, since stars less massive than 1.4 M-circle dot are strong X-ray sources at the age of the cluster. Both the median X-ray energies and X-ray luminosities of these sources are in good agreement with values for typical low-mass coronal X-ray sources. We find that 39% of the late B stars based on a list with proper motions have low-mass companions. Similarly, 32% of a sample without proper motions have low-mass companions. We discuss the X-ray detection completeness. These results on low-mass companions of intermediate-mass stars are complementary to spectroscopic and interferometric results and probe new parameter space of low-mass companions at all separations. They do not support a steeply rising distribution of mass ratios to low masses for intermediate-mass (5 M-circle dot) primaries, such as would be found by random pairing from the initial mass function.
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