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Evidence for magnetic activity at starbirth: a powerful X-ray flare from the Class 0 protostar HOPS 383

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Context. Class 0 protostars represent the earliest evolutionary stage of solar-type stars, during which the majority of the system mass resides in an infalling envelope of gas and dust and is not yet in the central, nascent star. Although X-rays are a key signature of magnetic activity in more evolved protostars and young stars, whether such magnetic activity is present at the Class 0 stage is still debated. Aims. We aim to detect a bona fide Class 0 protostar in X-rays. Methods. We observed HOPS 383 in 2017 December in X-rays with the Chandra X-ray Observatory (∼84 ks) and in near-infrared imaging with the Southern Astrophysical Research telescope. Results. HOPS 383 was detected in X-rays during a powerful flare. This hard (E > 2 keV) X-ray counterpart was spatially coincident with the northwest 4 cm component of HOPS 383, which would be the base of the radio thermal jet launched by HOPS 383. The flare duration was ∼3.3 h; at the peak, the X-ray luminosity reached ∼4 × 10 31 erg s −1 in the 2−8 keV energy band, a level at least an order of magnitude larger than that of the undetected quiescent emission from HOPS 383. The X-ray flare spectrum is highly absorbed (N H ∼ 7 × 10 23 cm −2), and it displays a 6.4 keV emission line with an equivalent width of ∼1.1 keV, arising from neutral or low-ionization iron. Conclusions. The detection of a powerful X-ray flare from HOPS 383 constitutes direct proof that magnetic activity can be present at the earliest formative stages of solar-type stars.
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hal-02873698 , version 1 (18-06-2020)

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Nicolas Grosso, Kenji Hamaguchi, David A. Principe, Joel Kastner. Evidence for magnetic activity at starbirth: a powerful X-ray flare from the Class 0 protostar HOPS 383. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A, 2020, 638, pp.L4. ⟨10.1051/0004-6361/202038185⟩. ⟨hal-02873698⟩
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