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2025PASJ...77S..50K - Publ. Astron. Soc. Jap., 77, 50-62 (2025/September-0)

Spectroscopic diagnostics of high-temperature plasma in stellar coronae using Fe XXIV-XXIV K-shell lines with XRISM.

KURIHARA M., TSUJIMOTO M., AUDARD M., BEHAR E., GU L., HAMAGUCHI K., HELL N., KILBOURNE C.A., MAEDA Y., PORTER F.S., SUGAI H. and TSUBOI Y.

Abstract (from CDS):

The RS CVn type binary star GT Muscae was observed during its quiescence using the Resolve X-ray microcalorimeter spectrometer onboard XRISM. The main and satellite lines of the Fe XXIV-XXIV K-shell transitions were resolved for the first time from stellar sources. We conducted line ratio analysis to investigate any deviations from collisional ionization equilibrium and Maxwell electron energy distribution with a single temperature. By using five combinations of direct excitation lines and dielectronic recombination satellite lines in three line complexes (Fe He$\alpha$, Ly$\alpha$, and He$\beta$), we found that the plasma is well characterized by two-temperature thermal plasmas with temperatures of 1.7 and 4.3 keV, which is consistent with thermal broadening of Fe XXV, and the broad-band fitting results in the 1.7-10 keV band. Other forms of deviation from a single-temperature plasma, such as different ionization and electron temperatures or the $\kappa$ distribution for the electron energy distributions, are not favored, which is reasonable for stellar coronae at quiescence. This study demonstrates the utility of the Fe K-shell line ratio diagnostics to probe plasma conditions using X-ray microcalorimeters.

Abstract Copyright: © The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Astronomical Society of Japan.

Journal keyword(s): atomic processes - stars: coronae - stars: individual (GT Mus) - techniques: spectroscopic - X-rays: stars

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