Friday, March 22, 2013

1303.5370 (Ignazio Pillitteri et al.)

XMM-Newton Observation of the α Persei Cluster    [PDF]

Ignazio Pillitteri, Nancy Remage Evans, Scott J. Wolk, Megan Bruck Syal
We report on the analysis of an archival observation of part of the {\alpha} Persei cluster obtained with XMM-Newton. We detected 102 X-ray sources in the band 0.3-8.0 keV, of which 39 of them are associated with the cluster as evidenced by appropriate magnitudes and colors from 2MASS photometry. We extend the X-ray Luminosity Distribution (XLD) for M dwarfs, to add to the XLD found for hotter dwarfs from spatially extensive surveys of the whole cluster by ROSAT. Some of the hotter stars are identified as a background, possible slightly older group of stars at a distance of approximately 500 pc.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5370

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