X-rays from jet-driving protostars and T Tauri stars

2006/09/07 by M. Güdel, M. Guedel, A. Telleschi +7 · 6 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Emission spectrum #Herbig–Haro object #Jet (fluid) #Mechanics #Physics #Protostar #Shock (circulatory) #Spectral line #Star formation #Stars #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #T Tauri star #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20065736

17 pages, 27 figures, A&A style. Accepted by A&A, to appear in a special section/issue dedicated to the XMM-Newton Extended Survey of the Taurus Molecular Cloud (XEST). Version with higher resolution figures available at http://www.issibern.ch/teams/Taurus/papers.html or http://www.astro.phys.ethz.ch/papers/guedel/guedel_p_nf.html

arxiv created 2006/09/07 · openalex publication_date 2006/10/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Aims.We study jet-driving protostars and T Tau stars to characterize their X-ray emission. We seek soft spectral components that may be due to shock emission, and search for soft, shock-induced emission displaced from the stellar position.

Citations

• X‐Rays from HH 80, HH 81, and the Central Region
• The XMM-Newton extended survey of the Taurus molecular cloud (XEST)
• The Origin of T Tauri X‐Ray Emission: New Insights from the Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project
• X-ray astronomy of stellar coronae

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