| Issue |
EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 43, 2013
40th Liège International Astrophysical Colloquium. Ageing Low Mass Stars: From Red Giants to White Dwarfs
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| Article Number | 04003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Hot B Subdwarfs (SDB) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134304003 | |
| Published online | 21 March 2013 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134304003
X-ray emission from hot subdwarfs with compact companions
1 INAF – IASF Milano, via Bassini 15, 20133 Milano, Italy
2 IUSS, piazza della Vittoria 15, 27100 Pavia, Italy
a e-mail: sandro@iasf-milano.inaf.it
We review the X-ray observations of hot subdwarf stars. While no X-ray emission has been detected yet from binaries containing B-type subdwarfs, interesting results have been obtained in the case of the two luminous O-type subdwarfs HD 49798 and BD + 37° 442. Both of them are members of binary systems in which the X-ray luminosity is powered by accretion onto a compact object: a rapidly spinning (13.2 s) and massive (1.28 M⊙) white dwarf in the case of HD 49798 and most likely a neutron star, spinning at 19.2 s, in the case of BD + 37° 442. Their study can shed light on the poorly known processes taking place during common envelope evolutionary phases and on the properties of wind mass loss from hot subdwarfs.
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