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X-Ray Emission from Distant Stellar Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

N.S. Schulz
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02143, USA
J.H. Kastner
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02143, USA

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Observations with the Einstein Observatory indicated that stellar X-ray activity diminishes in clusters older than 70 Myr (Pleiades). ROSAT observations of older clusters also support this result (see Caillault 1995 and references therein). The timescales over which young stars diminish in X-ray luminosity depends on spectral type (Randich et al. 1996), leading to the conclusion that X-ray activity in late type PMS depends on age and stellar mass. F and G-stars approach the main sequence much faster and the diminishing rates of X-ray activity from F to M stars start to differ considerably. Kastner et al. (1997) observed that the mean of the ratio Lx/Lbol for K and M dwarf stars increases monotonically for low-mass stars from the very early T Tauri stage through the age of the Pleiades cluster, reflecting the contraction and spin-up of such stars during pre-main sequence evolution. This ratio then decreases towards middle aged stars, as late-type main sequence stars spin down. Here we extend this result by including more distant clusters that are younger overall than those considered by Kastner et al. and also including earlier spectral types.

Type
Session 1: Plasma and Fresh Nucleosynthesis Phenomena
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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