X-ray emission from A0-F6 spectral type stars

We use the ROSAT public data archive to study the X-ray emission of a sample of supposedly single A0-F6 spectral type stars from the Bright Star Catalogue. We detected X-ray emission from 19 A and 33 F-type stars. However, our results are not sufficient to associate with certainty the X-ray emission...

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Published in:arXiv.org 1999-06
Main Authors: Panzera, M R, Tagliaferri, G, Pasinetti, L, Antonello, E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
A stars
Astronomical catalogs
Companion stars
Emission analysis
F stars
Luminosity
Spectra
Thermal plasmas
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Summary:We use the ROSAT public data archive to study the X-ray emission of a sample of supposedly single A0-F6 spectral type stars from the Bright Star Catalogue. We detected X-ray emission from 19 A and 33 F-type stars. However, our results are not sufficient to associate with certainty the X-ray emission to the A-type stars themselves, since the usual argument that it may originate from a binary companion can not be excluded. A spectral analysis was conducted for 14 sources (3 A and 11 F), finding that for 12 of them a two temperature thermal plasma model is needed to reproduce the observed spectra. The two temperatures are centered at 0.13 and 0.54 keV, respectively. The values found for the higher temperature are lower than that ones of X-ray selected single late-type stars. The X-ray luminosities are in the range 1E28 < L_X < 1E30 erg/s, with a distribution similar to that of active late-type stars. No correlation is found between L_X and B-V color, Vsin(i) and L_bol, while a positive correlation is found between the X-ray luminosity and the hardness ratio.
ISSN:2331-8422