SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 200064

SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 200064

Title: HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTRAL DIAGNOSTICS OF O-STAR X-RAY SOURCES

Observer: CASSINELLI

Subject Category: Normal Stars and WD

Seq: 200064 ObsId: 00639

Long-term Plan bin: no LTS bin

ABSTRACT

In the case of the fast O-star winds, the spectrometers on AXAF will provide for the first time the spectral resolution needed to derive velocities of the X-ray emitting material, significant constraints on the location of the emitting regions, and accurate characterizations of the temperature and density conditions of the X-ray sources. The wind absorption occurs not only by bound-free transistions, but by bound-bound inner shell transistions. Thus, diagnostic modelling of the AXAF spectra will provide new information not only about the state of the hot emitting plasma, but also about of the cool wind. We propose AXAF transmission grating observations of 3 bright O-stars: Iota Ori (LETG), Zeta Pup (METG/HETG), and Delta Ori (LETG).

TARGET SUMMARY

TARGET NAME RADEC TIME SI GRAT TYPE TC ROLL PRE PHASE MULTI PRI
DELTA ORI
83.001250
-0.299167
50.00000
ACIS-S
HETG
GO
no
no
no
no
no
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