SRG/eROSITA sources in the Pleiades Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Khamitov I.M.
  2. Bikmaev I.F.
  3. Gilfanov M.R.
  4. Sunyaev R.A.
  5. Medvedev P.S.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Using SRG/eROSITA X-ray sky survey data and the optical catalog of 2209 Pleiades cluster members constructed from Gaia data, we have found 850 X-ray sources associated with cluster stars. More than 650 of them have been detected in X-rays for the first time. At the distance of the Pleiades the nominal sensitivity of eROSITA in this sky region corresponds to a 0.3-2.3keV luminosity L_X_~1.6x10^28^erg/s. The eROSITA sources associated with the Pleiades radiate with a total luminosity L_X,total_~1.3x10^22^erg/s, which exceeds the X-ray luminosity of the quiet Sun by a million times. A strong, more than a factor of 10, X-ray variability has been recorded for 27 sources. Most of them are known as eruptive optical variable dM stars. R_X_=log(L_X_/L_bol_) for Pleiades stars increases with decreasing effective stellar temperature from R_X_~-5 to R_X_~-2 . The R_X_ distribution of stars is bimodal. The left peak at R_X_~-.43 is formed by FGK stars, while the right peak at R_X_~-3.1 is mostly populated by M stars. The dependence of R_X_ on the Rossby number R_o_ is different for different spectral types. At small Rossby numbers for K and M stars R_X_~-3 and depends weakly on R_o_. At R_o_>~0.25 a rapid decrease in R_X_ is observed for K stars, while there are no M stars with large Rossby numbers in our sample. Most of the F and G stars lie in the range of lower values, R_X_~-4.5, but the size of our sample is not enough to characterize in more detail the R_X_-R_o_ relation for them.

Keywords
  1. open-star-clusters
  2. x-ray-sources
  3. visible-astronomy
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2024AstL...50..780K
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2025-07-29T06:55:23Z
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