On Temperature and Abundance Effects During an X-Ray Flare on σ Geminorum
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We compare quiescent and flare X-ray spectra of the RS CVn binary σ Gem obtained with the Chandra and XMMNewton grating spectrometers. We find that in addition to an overall 25% flux increase, which can be ascribed to variations in the system’s quiescence activity over the 15 months that passed between the observations, there is a hot plasma component of kTe >∼ 3 keV that arises with the flare. The hot component is manifested primarily by emission from high charge states of Fe and by a vast continuum. The cooler (kTe <∼ 2 keV) plasma remains undisturbed during the flare. We find no significant variations in the relative abundances during the flare except for a slight decrease (< 30%) of O and Ne.
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