Stellar X-ray sources in the COSMOS survey Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Wright N.J.
  2. Drake J.J.
  3. Civano F.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present an analysis of the X-ray properties of a sample of solar- and late-type field stars identified in the Chandra Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), a deep (160ks) and wide (~0.9deg^2^) extragalactic survey. The sample of 60 sources was identified using both morphological and photometric star/galaxy separation methods. We determine X-ray count rates, extract spectra and light curves, and perform spectral fits to determine fluxes and plasma temperatures. Complementary optical and near-IR photometry is also presented and combined with spectroscopy for 48 of the sources to determine spectral types and distances for the sample. We find distances ranging from 30pc to ~12kpc, including a number of the most distant and highly active stellar X-ray sources ever detected. Overall the sample is typically more luminous than the active Sun, representing the high-luminosity end of the disk and halo X-ray luminosity functions. The halo population appears to include both low-activity spectrally hard sources that may be emitting through thermal bremsstrahlung, as well as a number of highly active sources in close binaries.

Keywords
  1. g-stars
  2. late-type-stars
  3. infrared-photometry
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. sloan-photometry
  6. stellar-spectral-types
  7. x-ray-sources
  8. surveys
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2010ApJ...725..480W
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/725/480
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17250480

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History

2012-08-23T08:48:35Z
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2012-08-23T08:48:35Z
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2017-06-27T06:37:22Z
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