Issue |
A&A
Volume 428, Number 2, December III 2004
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Page(s) | 569 - 577 | |
Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20041413 | |
Published online | 26 November 2004 |
X-ray emitting class I protostars in the Serpens dark cloud
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany e-mail: preib@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
Received:
4
June
2004
Accepted:
25
August
2004
We analyze a set of three individual XMM-Newton X-ray observation of the Serpens dark cloud. In addition to the 45 sources already reported in the analysis of the first of these XMM-Newton observations by Preibisch ([CITE]), the complete combined data set leads to the detection of X-ray emission from four of the 19 known class I protostars in the region. The set of three observations allows us to study the variability of the sources on timescales from minutes to several months. The lightcurves of two of the four X-ray detected class I protostars show evidence for significant variability; the data suggest at least four flare-like events on these objects. This relatively high level of variability in the X-ray emission from the class I protostars is in qualitative agreement with the result by Imanishi et al. ([CITE]), who found that the class I protostars in the ρ Ophiuchi dark cloud show a higher level of variability than that of more evolved class II and class III young stellar objects. This may support non-coronal X-ray emission mechanisms for class I protostars and is in agreement with the predictions of models that assume magnetic interactions between the protostar and its surrounding disk as a source of high-energy emission. We also find a strong variation (by a factor of ~10) in the X-ray luminosity of the class II object EC 74 between the three observations, which may be explained by a long duration flare or by rotational modulation. Finally, we find no evidence for X-ray emission from the five class 0 protostars in the region.
Key words: open clusters and associations: individual: stars: Serpens cloud / stars: formation / stars: coronae / stars: pre-main sequence / X-rays: stars
© ESO, 2004
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