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钱德拉ACIS巡天(ChASeM33):在M33中发现的瞬态X射线源

The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33): Transient X-ray Sources Discovered in M33

Benjamin F. Williams, Terrance J. Gaetz, Frank Haberl, Wolfgang Pietsch, Avi Shporer, Parviz Ghavamian, Paul P. Plucinsky, T. Mazeh, Manami Sasaki, Thomas G. Pannuti

摘要:

Chandra ACIS M33巡天(ChASeM 33)获得了涵盖M33的7个ACIS数据场,每个场的曝光量为200 ks。一个目录,从前10个月的数据,以及档案钱德拉观测可追溯到2000年,目前是可用的。我们已经搜索了这些数据的瞬态源,测量有一个0.35-8.0千电子伏的未吸收光度至少4 $\times10^{35}$尔格s $^{-1}$在一个时代,并没有在另一个时代检测到。这组调查数据已经产生了七个这样的源,包括一个以前已知的超软源。我们分析了XMM-牛顿数据从档案分布在2000年至2003年,以寻找经常爆发,并得到一个频谱的超软瞬态。我们发现只有一个经常性的瞬态在我们的样本。其他两个来源的X射线光谱、光变曲线和光学对应候选者表明它们是高质量的X射线双星。档案斯皮策测光和高X射线吸收表明,其中一个来源是一个高度可变的背景活动星系核。其他三个来源更难分类。与M31和银河系的短暂星群相比,M33明亮的短暂星群似乎包含了大部分的高质量X射线双星,这反映了M33的后期形态。

英文摘要:

The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33) has acquired 7 fields of ACIS data covering M33 with 200 ks of exposure in each field. A catalog from the first 10 months of data, along with archival Chandra observations dating back to the year 2000, is currently available. We have searched these data for transient sources that are measured to have a 0.35-8.0 keV unabsorbed luminosity of at least 4$\times10^{35}$ erg s$^{-1}$ in one epoch and are not detected in another epoch. This set of the survey data has yielded seven such sources, including one previously-known supersoft source. We analyzed XMM-Newton data from the archive distributed over the years 2000 to 2003 to search for recurrent outbursts and to get a spectrum for the supersoft transient. We find only one recurrent transient in our sample. The X-ray spectra, light curves, and optical counterpart candidates of two of the other sources suggest that they are high-mass X-ray binaries. Archival Spitzer photometry and high X-ray absorption suggest that one of the sources is a highly variable background active galactic nucleus. The other three sources are more difficult to classify. The bright transient population of M33 appears to contain a large fraction of high-mass X-ray binaries compared with the transient populations of M31 and the Galaxy, reflecting the later morphology of M33.

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