Bibcode
Rauw, G.; Nazé, Y.; Wright, N. J.; Drake, J. J.; Guarcello, M. G.; Prinja, R. K.; Peck, L. W.; Albacete Colombo, J. F.; Herrero, A.; Kobulnicky, H. A.; Sciortino, S.; Vink, J. S.
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 221, Issue 1, article id. 1, 20 pp. (2015).
Fecha de publicación:
11
2015
Número de citas
49
Número de citas referidas
42
Descripción
We report on the analysis of the Chandra-ACIS data of O, B, and WR stars
in the young association Cyg OB2. X-ray spectra of 49 O-stars, 54
B-stars, and 3 WR-stars are analyzed and for the brighter sources, the
epoch dependence of the X-ray fluxes is investigated. The O-stars in Cyg
OB2 follow a well-defined scaling relation between their X-ray and
bolometric luminosities:
{log}\\frac{{L}{{X}}}{{L}{bol}}=-7.2+/- 0.2. This
relation is in excellent agreement with the one previously derived for
the Carina OB1 association. Except for the brightest O-star binaries,
there is no general X-ray overluminosity due to colliding winds in
O-star binaries. Roughly half of the known B-stars in the surveyed field
are detected, but they fail to display a clear relationship between
LX and Lbol. Out of the three WR stars in Cyg OB2,
probably only WR 144 is itself responsible for the observed level of
X-ray emission, at a very low
{log}\\frac{{L}{{X}}}{{L}{bol}}=-8.8+/- 0.2. The
X-ray emission of the other two WR-stars (WR 145 and 146) is most
probably due to their O-type companion along with a moderate
contribution from a wind–wind interaction zone.