The Stellar Population of RCW 38
- Autor(en)
- S. Wolk, B. Spitzbart, T. Bourke, J. Alves
- Abstrakt
We report on results of a 96.7 ks Chandra observation of one of the
youngest, most embedded and massive young stellar clusters studied to
date in X-rays -- RCW 38. In addition to its mass and youth, this
cluster is remarkable due to its extended X-ray emission which is
surrounded by a continuum radio ring. With Chandra, we detect 485 point
sources ranging down to a sensitivity limit of ˜ 1028
ergs s-1. Of these sources, about 200 appear to be cluster
members and most of these have IR counterparts in our VLT data. We have
modeled the coronae as Raymond-Smith plasmas. We find that the column
densities vary from 1020 to 1023 NH and
temperature varies from 0.2 to 8 keV. Five percent of the sources
exhibit flares while about 30% are classified as variable.
We acknowledge support from CXC contract (NAS8-39073) and and NASA/CXC
grant GO2-3105X.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Astrophysik
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Joint ALMA Observatory, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Journal
- Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society
- Band
- 35
- Seiten
- 1219
- ISSN
- 0002-7537
- Publikationsdatum
- 12-2003
- ÖFOS 2012
- 103004 Astrophysik
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- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/af9117e3-5683-4211-bcb6-ff02ae7f5bca