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用XMM-牛顿法对NGC 253的多色观测

A Multi-coloured survey of NGC 253 with XMM-Newton

R. Barnard, L. Shaw Greening, U. Kolb

摘要:

有大量的工作使用了优秀的钱德拉观测附近的星系与可忽略的低质量X射线双星(LMXB)人口。这最终导致了高质量X射线双星(HMXB)的“通用”X射线光度函数(XLF)。然而,在创建这些XLF时,已经使用了许多方法来从源强度转换为光度。我们利用XMM-牛顿观测附近的恒星爆发螺旋星系NGC 253来测试这些方法中的一些。我们发现从这些不同的方法得到的光度变化的一个因素$\sim$ 3。我们还发现,最有影响力的因素,从强度到亮度的转换是吸收。因此,我们得出结论,需要一种更一致的方法来确定HMXB的真正通用XLF。理想情况下,这将涉及每个X射线源的单独光谱拟合。当然,视线吸收应该根据观测结果来确定,而不是假设银河系吸收。我们发现从低计数数据获得XLF的最佳方法是将X射线源分裂成两个或更多个强度间隔,并从该组的总光谱的光谱建模中获得每组从强度到通量的转换。

英文摘要:

There is a large body of work that has used the excellent Chandra observations of nearby galaxies with neglible low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) populations. This has culminated in a ``Universal'' X-ray luminosity function (XLF) for high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs). However, a number of methods have been used to convert from source intensities to luminosities when creating these XLFs. We have taken advantage of the XMM-Newton observations of the nearby starbursting spiral galaxy NGC 253 to test some of these methods. We find the luminosities derived from these various methods to vary by a factor of $\sim$3. We also find the most influential factor in the conversion from intensity to luminosity to be the absorption. We therefore conclude that a more consistent approach is required for determining the true Universal XLF for HMXBs. Ideally, this would involve individual spectral fitting of each X-ray source. Certainly, the line-of-sight absorption should be determined from the observations rather than assuming Galactic absorption. We find the best approach for obtaining an XLF from low-count data to be the splitting of the X-ray sources into two or more intensity intervals, and obtaining a conversion from intensity to flux for each group from spectral modelling of the summed spectrum of that group.

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