Estimation of the flux at 1450MHz of OB stars for FAST and SKA

Qichen Huang, Biwei Jiang, Dingshan Deng, Bin Yu, Albert Zijlstra

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Abstract

Radio observation is crucial to understanding the wind mechanism of OB stars but very scarce. This work estimates the flux at 1450MHz (S 1.4GHz) of about 5,000 OB stars identified by the LAMOST spectroscopic survey and confirmed by the Gaia astrometric as well as astrophysical measurements. The calculation is performed under the free-free emission mechanism for wind with the mass loss rate derived from stellar parameters. The estimated S 1.4GHz distributes from 10−11Jy to 10−3Jy with the peak at about 10−8Jy. This implies that the complete SKA-II can detect more than half of them, and 16 some tens of objects are detectable by FAST without considering source confusion. An array of FAST would increase the detectable sample by two orders of magnitude.
Original languageEnglish
JournalThe Astronomical Journal
Volume166
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Jun 2023

Keywords

  • OB stars(1141)
  • Radio continuum (1340)
  • Stellar winds(1636)
  • Radio telescopes(1360)

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