The High-energy Spectrum of the Young Planet Host V1298 Tau
Girish M. Duvvuri, P. Wilson Cauley, Fernando Cruz Aguirre, R. E. Kilgard, Kevin France, Zachory K. Berta-Thompson, J. Sebastian Pineda
Abstract
Abstract V1298 Tau is a young pre-main-sequence star hosting four known exoplanets that are prime targets for transmission spectroscopy with current-generation instruments. This work pieces together observations from the NICER X-ray telescope, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and Cosmic Origins Spectrograph instruments aboard Hubble Space Telescope, and empirically informed models to create a panchromatic spectral energy distribution for V1298 Tau spanning 1–10 5 Å. We describe the methods and assumptions used to assemble the panchromatic spectrum and show that despite this star’s brightness, its high-energy spectrum is near the limit of present X-ray and ultraviolet observatories’ abilities to characterize. We conclude by using the V1298 Tau spectrum as a benchmark for the activity saturation stage of high-energy radiation from solar-mass stars to compare the lifetime cumulative high-energy irradiation of the V1298 Tau planets to other planets orbiting similarly massive stars.