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We present a detailed investigation of X-ray source contents of eight young open clusters with ages between 4 to 46 Myr using archival X-ray data from XMM-Newton. The probable cluster memberships of the X-ray sources have been established on the basis of multi-wavelength archival data, and samples of 152 pre-main sequence (PMS) low mass (<2M ⊙), 36 intermediate mass (2–10M ⊙) and 16 massive (>10M ⊙) stars have been generated. X-ray spectral analyses of high mass stars reveal the presence of high temperature plasma with temperature <2 keV, and mean L X/L bol of 10 − 6.9. In the case of PMS low mass stars, the plasma temperatures have been found to be in the range of 0.2 keV to 3 keV with a median value of ~1.3 keV, with no significant difference in plasma temperatures during their evolution from 4 to 46 Myr. The X-ray luminosity distributions of the PMS low mass stars have been found to be similar in the young star clusters under study. This may suggest a nearly uniform X-ray activity in the PMS low mass stars of ages ~4–14 Myr. These observed values of L X/L bol are found to have a mean value of 10− 3.6±0.4, which is below the X-ray saturation level. The L X/L bol values for the PMS low mass stars are well correlated with their bolometric luminosities, that implies its dependence on the internal structure of the low mass stars. The difference between the X-ray luminosity distributions of the intermediate mass stars and the PMS low mass stars has not been found to be statistically significant. Their L X/L bol values, however have been found to be significantly different from each other with a confidence level greater than 99.999% and the strength of X-ray activity in the intermediate mass stars is found to be lower compared to the low mass stars. However, the possibility of X-ray emission from the intermediate mass stars due to a low mass star in close proximity of the intermediate mass star can not be ruled out.
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The authors would like to thank the anonymous referee for his/her constructive comments. This publication makes use of data from the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation, and data products from XMM-Newton archives using the high energy astrophysics science archive research center which is established at Goddard by NASA. We acknowledge XMM-Newton Help Desk for their remarkable support in X-ray data analysis. Data from Simbad, VizieR catalogue access tool, CDS, Strasbourg, France have also been used. HB is thankful for the financial support for this work through the INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship granted by the Department of Science & Technology India. They also acknowledge R. C. Rannot, Nilesh Chouhan and R. Koul for their support to complete this work.
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Bhatt, H., Pandey, J.C., Singh, K.P. et al. X-ray Observations of Eight Young Open Star Clusters: I. Membership and X-ray Luminosity. J Astrophys Astron 34, 393–429 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12036-013-9190-8
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