X-rays from magnetically channeled winds of OB stars
Astrophysics
2008-02-01 v1
Abstract
OB stars with strong radiation-driven stellar winds and large-scale magnetic fields generate strong and hard X-ray emission via the Magnetically Channeled Wind Shock (MCWS) mechanism. In this brief paper, I describe four separate X-ray diagnostics of the MCWS mechanism in OB stars, with applications to the prototype young O star, theta-1 Ori C.
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@article{arxiv.0801.4780,
title = {X-rays from magnetically channeled winds of OB stars},
author = {David H. Cohen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.4780},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
2 pages; 1 figure (color, but looks fine in b/w). To appear as part of an article on the specialist session on magnetic massive stars held prior to IAU Symposium 250, "Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines," Kauai, HI, December 2007; eds. Bresolin, Crowther, & Puls, Cambridge University Press, 2008