[6] Columbia Univ, Columbia Astrophys Lab, New York, NY 10027 USA
来源:
PROCEEDINGS OF THE X-RAY UNIVERSE 2005, VOLS 1 AND 2
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2006年
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604卷
关键词:
Taurus dark cloud;
brown dwarfs;
X-rays;
D O I:
暂无
中图分类号:
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号:
0704 ;
摘要:
The X-ray Emission Survey of the Taurus Molecular Cloud (XEST) is an exceptionally large project to systematically investigate the high-energy properties of young stellar objects in this nearest star-forming region. It is accompanied by optical and near-infrared surveys of the same area. When XMM-Newton archival observations are added, the total X-ray exposure time is more than 200 hours shared among 25 pointings. In particular the surveyed areas, combined with two Chandra archival observations, allow us to study the X-ray emission of 19 young bona fide brown dwarfs (BDs) of the Taurus Molecular Cloud (TMC). We report here the properties of the X-ray emission of these young BDs. We detected half of this substellar sample in X-rays. Comparison with the properties of the X-ray emission from low-mass stars will allow us to investigate changes in the magnetic activity around the stellar/substellar boundary.