SCYON Abstract

Received on December 9 2011

Star Formation in the Outer Galaxy: Coronal Properties of NGC 1893

Authors	M. Caramazza, G. Micela, L. Prisinzano, S. Sciortino, F. Damiani, F. Favata, J.R. Stauffer, A. Vallenari and S.J. Wolk
Affiliation	INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Piazza del Parlamento 1, 90134 Palermo, Italy European Space Agency, 8-10 rue Mario Nikis, 75015 Paris, France Spitzer Science Center, Caltech 314-6, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Vicolo dell Osservatorio 5, 35122 Padova, Italy Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Accepted by	Astronomy & Astrophysics
Contact	mcarama@astropa.unipa.it
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Abstract

The outer Galaxy, where the environmental conditions are different from the solar neighbourhood is a laboratory in which it is possible to investigate the dependence of star formation process on the environmental parameters. We investigate the X-ray properties of NGC1893, a young cluster (∼ 1−2 Myr) in the outer part of the Galaxy (galactic radius ≥ 11 kpc) where we expect differences in the disk evolution and in the mass distr ibution of the stars, to explore the X-ray emission of its members and compare it with that of young stars in atar forming regions near to the Sun. We analyze 5 deep Chandra ACIS-I observations with a total exposure time of 450 ks. Source events of the 1021 X-ray sources have been extracted with the IDL-based routine ACIS-Extract. Using spectral fitting and quantile analysis of X-ray spectr a, we derive X-ray luminosities and compare the respective properties of Class II and Class III members. We also evaluate the variability of sources using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and we identify flares in the lightcurves. The X-ray luminosity of NGC 1893 X-ray members is in the range 1029.5 − 1031.5 erg s−1. Diskless stars are brighter in X-rays than disk-bearing stars, given the same bolometric luminosity. We found that 34% of the 1021 lightcurves appear variable and that they show 0.16 flare per source, on average. Comparing our results with those relative to the Orion Nebula Cluster, we find that, accounting for observational biases, the X-ray properties of NGC 1893 and the Orion ones are very similar. The X-ray properties in NGC 1893 are not affected by the environment and the stellar population in the outer Galaxy may have the same coronal properties of nearby star forming regions. The X-ray luminosity properties and the X-ray luminosity function appear to be universal and can therefore be used for distance estimations and for determining stellar properties as already suggested by Feigelson and collaborators.