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IC 2944/2948 XMM-Newton X-Ray Source Catalog
Listed in IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory)
Using XMM-Newton data, the authors have studied for the first time the X-ray emission of the young star clusters HM1 and IC 2944/2948.
Description
Low-mass, pre-main sequence objects with an age of a few Myr are detected, as well as a few background or foreground objects. Most massive stars in both clusters display the usual high-energy properties of that kind of objects, though with log(L<sub>x</sub>/L<sub>bol</sub>) apparently lower in HM1 than in IC 2944/2948.
Comparing with studies of other clusters, it seems that low S/N at soft energies, due to the high extinction, may the main cause of this difference. In HM1, the two Wolf-Rayet stars show contrasting behaviors: WR89 is extremely bright, but much softer than WR87. It remains to be seen whether wind-wind collisions or magnetically confined winds can explain such emissions.
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In IC 2944/2948, the X-ray sources concentrate around HD 101205; a group of massive stars to the north of this object appears rather isolated, suggesting that there exist two sub-clusters in the field of view. This tables provides the list of 368 detected X-ray sources in/toward the Cen OB2 association cluster(s) IC 2944/2948 only, i.e., the 58 X-ray sources detected in/toward the HM1 cluster are not contained herein. This tables lists the basic X-ray source properties (position, count rates, hardness ratios) and their probable optical/infrared counterparts (offset angular distance, name).
XMM-Newton has observed IC 2944/2948 for 40 ks on XMM-Newton Rev. 2209 (with the THICK filter). No background flare affected the observation, and no source is bright enough to suffer from pile-up. This table was created by the HEASARC in September 2013 based on <a href="cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/A+A/555/A83">CDS Catalog J/A+A/555/A83</a> files table3.dat and table4.dat.
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Links
Where it is published
- Reference page heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/ic2944xmm.html ↗
landing page · from IVOA Registry
Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
metadata API · from IVOA Registry
- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/nasa.heasarc/ic2944xmm ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- Stated by source
- X-Ray
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Inferred from text
- Astronomical sciences 71% · Tabular 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://nasa.heasarc/ic2944xmm | 15 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:5101 | enrichment · IVOA Registry | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (71%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:x-ray | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:tabular | enrichment · IVOA Registry | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| publication_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_title |
| updated_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 |