News on the X-ray emission from hot subdwarf stars

In latest years, the high sensitivity of the instruments on-board the XMM-Newton and Chandra satellites allowed us to explore the properties of the X-ray emission from hot subdwarf stars. The small but growing sample of X-ray detected hot subdwarfs includes binary systems, in which the X-ray emissio...

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Published in:Open astronomy 2017-12, Vol.26 (1), p.187-194
Main Authors: Palombara, Nicola La, Mereghetti, Sandro
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Binaries
Hot subdwarfs
Mass-loss
Neutron stars
White dwarfs
X-rays
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Summary:In latest years, the high sensitivity of the instruments on-board the XMM-Newton and Chandra satellites allowed us to explore the properties of the X-ray emission from hot subdwarf stars. The small but growing sample of X-ray detected hot subdwarfs includes binary systems, in which the X-ray emission is due to wind accretion onto a compact companion (white dwarf or neutron star), as well as isolated sdO stars, in which X-rays are probably due to shock instabilities in the wind. X-ray observations of these low-mass stars provide information which can be useful for our understanding of the weak winds of this type of stars and can lead to the discovery of particularly interesting binary systems. Here we report the most recent results we have recently obtained in this research area.
ISSN:2543-6376
2543-6376
DOI:10.1515/astro-2017-0435