The Detection of Variable Radio Emission from the Fast Rotating Magnetic Hot B-Star HR 7355 and Evidence for Its X-Ray Aurorae
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-1-2017
Description
In this paper we investigate the multiwavelengths properties of the magnetic early B-type star HR7355. We present its radio light curves at several frequencies, taken with the Jansky Very Large Array, and X-ray spectra, taken with the XMM X-ray telescope. Modeling of the radio light curves for the Stokes I and V provides a quantitative analysis of the HR7355 magnetosphere. A comparison between HR7355 and a similar analysis for the Ap star CUVir, allows us to study how the different physical parameters of the two stars affect the structure of the respective magnetospheres where the non-thermal electrons originate. Our model includes a cold thermal plasma component that accumulates at high magnetic latitudes that influences the radio regime, but does not give rise to X-ray emission. Instead, the thermal X-ray emission arises from shocks generated by wind stream collisions close to the magnetic equatorial plane. The analysis of the X-ray spectrum of HR7355 also suggests the presence of a non-thermal radiation. Comparison between the spectral index of the power-law X-ray energy distribution with the non-thermal electron energy distribution indicates that the non-thermal X-ray component could be the auroral signature of the non-thermal electrons that impact the stellar surface, the same non-thermal electrons that are responsible for the observed radio emission. On the basis of our analysis, we suggest a novel model that simultaneously explains the X-ray and the radio features of HR7355 and is likely relevant for magnetospheres of other magnetic early type stars.
Citation Information
Leto, P.; Trigilio, Corrado; Oskinova, Lidia M.; Ignace, Richard; Buemi, C. S.; Umana, G.; Ingallinera, A.; Todt, H.; and Leone, F.. 2017. The Detection of Variable Radio Emission from the Fast Rotating Magnetic Hot B-Star HR 7355 and Evidence for Its X-Ray Aurorae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Vol.467(3). 2820-2833. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx267 ISSN: 0035-8711
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