XMM-NEWTON DETECTION OF A TRANSIENT X-RAY SOURCE IN THE VICINITY OF V838 MONOCEROTIS

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作者
Antonini, Fabio [1 ,2 ]
Montez, Rodolfo, Jr. [3 ]
Kastner, Joel H. [3 ]
Bond, Howard E. [4 ]
Soker, Noam [5 ]
Tylenda, Romuald [6 ]
Starrfield, Sumner [7 ]
Behar, Ehud [5 ]
机构
[1] Rochester Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Rochester, NY 14623 USA
[2] Rochester Inst Technol, Ctr Computat Relat & Gravitat, Rochester, NY 14623 USA
[3] Rochester Inst Technol, Chester F Carlson Ctr Imaging Sci, Rochester, NY 14623 USA
[4] Space Telescope Sci Inst, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[5] Technion Israel Inst Technol, Dept Phys, IL-32000 Haifa, Israel
[6] Nicolaus Copernicus Astron Ctr, Dept Astrophys, PL-87100 Torun, Poland
[7] Arizona State Univ, Sch Earth & Space Explorat, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA
关键词
stars: individual (V838 Mon); stars: mass-loss; stars: peculiar; supergiants; V4332; SAGITTARII; STELLAR MERGER; OUTBURST; STARS; EVOLUTION; EMISSION; MASS; SPECTROSCOPY; ROTATION; DISTANCE;
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10.1088/0004-637X/717/2/795
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We report the XMM-Newton/EPIC detection in 2008 March of a luminous (L-X similar to 10(32-33) erg s(-1)), variable X-ray source in the vicinity (within similar to 6 '') of the enigmatic star V838 Mon, which underwent a spectacular outburst in early 2002. Spectral modeling of the XMM-Newton X-ray source indicates the presence of two plasma components with characteristic temperatures of TX similar to 2 x 10(6) K and similar to 1.5 x 10(7) K, attenuated by an absorbing column (N-H similar to 4 x 10(21) cm(-2)) that is consistent with the visual extinction measured toward V838 Mon (A(V) similar to 2). No such luminous source was detected in the immediate vicinity of V838 Mon in Chandra/ACIS-S observations obtained about one year after outburst or, most recently, in 2010 January. The two XMM-Newton source spectral components appear to be marginally spatially resolved, with the spatial centroid of the hard component lying closer to (within similar to 2 '' of) the position of V838 Mon than the broadband source or the soft source component; however, if there are two sources at or near V838 Mon, the Chandra nondetections would imply that both of them are variable. An alternative is that there is a single variable source, and that the apparent spatial separation may actually be due to photon-counting statistics or is perhaps instrumental in origin. We consider constraints placed by theX-ray detection and nondetections on a stellar merger model for the 2002 V838 Mon outburst, in which the spun-up merger product drives a powerful magnetic dynamo. Alternatively, the transient behavior of the X-ray source could indicate that theX-rays arose as a consequence of an interaction between V838 Mon's ejecta and its early-type (B3V) companion.
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页码:795 / 802
页数:8
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