X-ray catalog of Galactic O stars Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Nebot Gomez-Moran A.
  2. Oskinova L.M.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The X-ray emission of O-type stars was first discovered in the early days of the Einstein satellite. Since then many different surveys have confirmed that the ratio of X-ray to bolometric luminosity in O-type stars is roughly constant, but there is a paucity of studies that account for detailed information on spectral and wind properties of O-stars. Recently a significant sample of O stars within our Galaxy was spectroscopically identified and presented in the Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey (GOSS). At the same time, a large high-fidelity catalog of X-ray sources detected by the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope was released. Here we present the X-ray catalog of O stars with known spectral types and investigate the dependence of their X-ray properties on spectral type as well as stellar and wind parameters.We find that, among the GOSS sample, 127 O-stars have a unique XMM-Newton source counterpart and a Gaia data release 2 (DR2) association. Terminal velocities are known for a subsample of 35 of these stars.We confirm that the X-ray luminosities of dwarf and giant O stars correlate with their bolometric luminosity. For the subsample of O stars with measure terminal velocities we find that the X-ray luminosities of dwarf and giant O stars also correlate with wind parameters. However, we find that these correlations break down for supergiant stars. Moreover, we show that supergiant stars are systematically harder in X-rays compared to giant and dwarf O-type stars. We find that the X-ray luminosity depends on spectral type, but seems to be independent of whether the stars are single or in a binary system. Finally, we show that the distribution of log(LX/Lbol) in our sample stars is non-Gaussian, with the peak of the distribution at log(LX/Lbol)~=-6.6.

Keywords
  1. o-stars
  2. x-ray-sources
  3. stellar-distance
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2018A&A...620A..89N
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/620/A89
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/620/A89
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36200089

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History

2018-12-04T11:10:52Z
Resource record created
2018-12-04T11:10:52Z
Created
2019-01-07T09:28:24Z
Updated

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