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850 SRG/eROSITA X-ray sources associated with Pleiades stars

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2025-05-09 v1

Abstract

Using data from the SRG/eROSITA all-sky X-ray survey and the GAIA-based catalog of 2,209 members of the Pleiades open star cluster, we found 850 X-ray sources associated with the cluster stars. Over 650 of them were detected in X-rays for the first time. At the distance of the Pleiades, the nominal sensitivity of eROSITA corresponds to a luminosity of LX1.61028L_X \sim 1.6 \cdot 10^{28} erg/s in the 0.3-2.3 keV band. The eROSITA sources associated with Pleiades stars have a total luminosity of LX,tot1.31032L_{X,tot} \sim 1.3 \cdot 10^{32} erg/s , a million times greater than the X-ray luminosity of the quiet Sun. Strong X-ray variability, more than 10 times, was recorded for 27 sources. Most of them are known as eruptive optical variables of the dM class. The value of RX=log(LX/Lbol)R_X=log(L_X/L_{bol}) increases with decreasing effective temperature of the star from RX5R_X\approx -5 to RX2R_X\approx -2. The distribution of stars over RXR_X is bimodal, with the left peak at RX4.3R_X\sim-4.3 being formed by stars of FGK classes, and the right peak at RX3.1R_X\sim-3.1 being mainly populated by M-stars. The relation between RXR_X and the Rossby number RoRo depends on the spectral class. For K- and M- stars, at low Rossby numbers RX3R_X\sim -3 and depends weakly on RoRo. At Ro>0.25Ro \gt 0.25, a rapid drop in RXR_X is observed for K stars, while in our sample there are no M stars with large Rossby number. Most of F- and G- stars appear to have smaller RX4.5R_X\sim -4.5, however, our sample size is insufficient for a more detailed characterization of their RXRoR_X-Ro dependence.

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@article{arxiv.2505.05006,
  title  = {850 SRG/eROSITA X-ray sources associated with Pleiades stars},
  author = {I. M. Khamitov and I. F. Bikmaev and M. R. Gilfanov and R. A. Sunyaev and P. S. Medvedev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.05006},
  year   = {2025}
}

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16 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables