Specific Star Forming Regions -- Poster Presentation

h Persei: Young Star Cluster in X-rays

Natalya Bizunok, Center for Astrophysics

S. J. Wolk, N. R. Evans, B. Spitzbart, F. Seward, S. Kenyon (CfA), T. Barnes (U. Texas), and J. M. Pasachoff (Williams College)

We have obtained a 40 ksec ACIS observation of the open star cluster h Per in December, 2004, from which we have identified more than 200 X-ray sources and found optical counterparts for many of them. We are processing the h Per data with the ANCHORS pipeline, which is being used to process Chandra observations of star forming regions in a uniform manner. This will provide fits to the instrumental low-resolution spectra for cool pre-main sequence stars in h Per including fluxes, temperatures, and absorptions.