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Magnetic accretion onto young stars

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  • Young T Tauri stars exhibit strong solar-type magnetic activity, with extremely high temperature coronae and energetic flares. In a few systems discovered with Chandra and XMM-Newton there is also evidence for X-ray emission produced by shocks associated with magnetically channeled accretion. A recent 489 ksec Chandra HETG/ACIS-S observation

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  • 2011

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